Frayed Edges



Pain in heart
You turn away,
Yet I'm begged just to stay,

In your heart you must weep,
For the cuts are so deep,

You bleed on...

Believing in no cure,
When your heart is so pure,
But your mind has won,

Come what may,
And let go what will,
The truths you say,
Wait on your heart's sill

'Till you believe,
It won't be still,

I bleed on...

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Written on July 10, 1998

Submitted by WitheringSurface on November 24, 2022

Modified on April 04, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAA BB C DDX AEAE XE C
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 342
Words 88
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 2, 1, 3, 4, 2, 1

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