Are You Sorry



for spoken lies,
those crazy making quilts
pulled over our heads
and told like a child
to a child
playing with matches

for promises,
those pennies to heaven
thrown high and away
to catch as catch can be
dropping to earth
down a wishing well

for making love,
given without much thought
with no thought in mind
to the almost ever
and after all
of here and now what
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXAAB BXXXXX XXXXXX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 345
Words 69
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 6

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