Deep As First Love



The dagger thrust deep as first love
 And I feigned for prosecution
 Yet this is just reciprocity
 Some call it the human condition
 To suffer what we bind to the world
 On the verge of apocalypse
 Oh, and your lips, that peppermint twist-
 Deep as regret can be.
 I ran to the merry pied-piper
 To play me a dirge of you
 So at first sight, wisdom took flight
 Deep as the throat of Hell
 The dagger is bathed, the crimson is paid-
 Tell me no more of Heaven
 Henceforth they and I, give court to the Lie-
 Deep as first love can be.
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Submitted on September 30, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCBDEFCGHIJKBLC
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 519
Words 103
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 16

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