white lie
noor berber 2000 (South Carolina)
i was nothing but a little white lie.
i didn't want to be a pain
i didn't want to worry you,
i didn't want to be a pain
it happened more than once
i did it for you,
yet it was all because of you
nothing more than a little white lie
that was the little white lie you believed
it was only once just once i promised
i had the blade in my hand another 20 times
but you couldn't know that
the white lie you believed
that was the little white lie you used against me
i wanted to protect you
yet you couldn't care less about me.
you cared about yourself
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Submitted by noorwberber on April 15, 2021
Modified on April 12, 2023
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Scheme | aBcB xcca dxxxd ecex |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 533 |
Words | 114 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 5, 4 |
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