Boys Don't Cry



There upon the table
 Lies my sullen art
 How you wear my fate
 How you rule my heart

 This the craft that binds
 Composing from the mind
 A tale that every boy,
 Well learn to write in time

 An empty pint of beer
 Will refill itself with tears
 A warm gun will recommend
 How to fix, what does offend

 The wild beast within
 Rages when the injury
 Takes him by the neck
 And brings him to his knees

 Then like slaughter hogs
 We become the sacrifice,
 Begging women's tears
 To conjure back to ice

 But in some other way
 We keep tears away
 Napalm clears a field
 When the enemy won't yield

 I'm thinking like a man
 Not giving a d*mn
 So you wear my fate
 Like love disguised as hate

 Cast these rages aside
 Give them time they'll dry
 No! These tears won't fall
 I'll walk proud and tall

 But there'll be a time
 Every mans been there
 Yet they will never know
 Just how much we cared.
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Submitted on September 30, 2013

Modified on March 10, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XABA XXXC XDEE FXXX XGDG HHII XFBB XXJJ CXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 855
Words 169
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

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