The Eyes Have It (Revision 2)



Your eyes have signaled a defeat,
despite your words -- weak trials
to set a victory scene complete
with lies, sneers, and bogus smiles --
all hope, all truth, finally fled;
a game unstoppable once started.

What‘s left is but a love now dead,
sad stories since we met and parted.
All lives contain elemental stuff--
romance, drama, and cartoons.
Let's have --we suffer through enough--
no crying clowns, no blue balloons.

But ah! The hurt within those eyes --
that dam the tears your speech denies!
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme AXAXBC BCDEDE FF
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 487
Words 87
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 2

L. Larry Amadore

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