10 foot tall”
Deborah "Turtledove" Caporale 1964 (sacramento)
“When I was young, I knew it all,
I lived like I was 10 feet tall,
No one could ever tell me how
If I knew then what I know now
I’d shut my mouth and use my ears
Instead, I wasted many years
When your young, what you don’t know
Is just how fast your life will go
Never let regrets outweigh
Good memories to be made each day
It’s not too late to work things out
Isn’t that what love’s about?
More regrets we need not make
Life’s too short for Heaven’s sake
My last wish, to see my kids
Regret no more the wrong I did
For if they harbor hate for me
I fear their souls shall not be free
I now live like I’m 5 feet tall
I know much more yet still not all
One last thing I want to learn
Before I rest within my urn
Is how to let my kids all know
How much I’ve always loved them so”
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Submitted on February 22, 2021
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 822 |
Words | 168 |
Stanzas | 12 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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