Slow decay
To love or to love not is a conundrum of love life
Love, yet love not, when feelings and logic duel it out
One day logic overcomes feelings of love
Next day feelings grow like cancer, mushrooming love throughout
You blast love with protons of hate Making thyself sick and weak
Yet cancer of love knows no end
It is ready to take you to the end
Love and hate collide, producing toxic waste of life
Ready to explode ready to implode
Love and Hate embrace and slowly fold
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Submitted on February 07, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AB XB XCC AXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 459 |
Words | 89 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 3, 3 |
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