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I Can't Give You This

Douglas J. Newsom

I can't give this to you

I want to

Even if you accepted it

It's not mine -to give

I can't give you this

but I want to, always did

It would take all of me

If it was possible

Everything I am, it would take

the sum of me, and you

Could you live with that

Don't look to me

I can't answer that

Please don't look

I'm afraid of what I'll say

and what I'll find
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Submitted on October 04, 2009

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme A A X X X X B X X A C B C X X X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 338
Words 78
Stanzas 16
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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