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Can Faith Your Trust Restore?

Wallace Dean LaBenne

Today I read your poems and prose
Your anguished thoughts a shriek
Your pain I felt as hammer blows
Your tears ran down my cheek

Exposed by some naked foray
Concealed with masks before
Facades once used now torn away
Your soul's an open door

Invited to your darkest time
Viewed through an altered sight
Your represented heart does mime
And yields dramatic light

Betrayed and wounded by deceit
Can faith your trust restore?
Or do you seek a safe retreat
And dare to love no more?
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on April 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABAB CDCD EFEF GDGD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 463
Words 87
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4
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Wallace Dean LaBenne

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