Asterisk *



Note well
For this is my time to be who I am
And the danger of looking backward
Is at an end

Don’t harp on about
Alligators, and poisonous lizards
For we are free to be,
Just be

Asterisk, mark my place
And untold stories
Be damned
In the un-telling
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Submitted by speakalittlefr on April 07, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XXXX XXAA XXXX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 239
Words 50
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4

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