a poem



Sometimes
We pestered our parents
Beyond tolerance
Then they said-
''To hell with you ''

And I actually
died my death
At that very moment

My parents
did not know that
what they brought up since then
Had been my corpse .
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Submitted on November 03, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XAXXX XXX AXXX
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 208
Words 41
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 5, 3, 4

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