Love's Waterloo
I looked at you a thousand times
before I saw you once
You never did look back at me
my vision sorely trumped
Till that one day I saw you clear
in substance and in form
But still I longed for one more look
where I still got it wrong
You’re with me now in all I say
and everything I do
Though never more than what this is…
a lovesick waterloo
I wish I could have squinted more
or glanced with just one eye
As stars misled a heart deceived
—my fantasy belied
(Dreamsleep: May, 2022)
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Submitted by KurtPhilipBehm on May 29, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | XXXX XXXX ABXB XXXX A |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 492 |
Words | 102 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 1 |
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