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Dear Matthew

Jessie 1973 (Queens)

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I'm sorry I had to do what I did but just like you I was only a kid...
15 years old and a mother to be I thought it over and what did I see.
I was so scared and didn't know what to do...
No money no daddy to take care of you.
But now you are safe in the heavens above....
Please just know I did it for love.

About this poem

It's a poem about something I went through as a teenager. Me having a baby the pregnancy I couldn't keep.

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Written on July 10, 1989

Submitted by houckjessie99 on March 23, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCCDD
Closest metre Iambic heptameter
Characters 311
Words 76
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 6
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49 years old I like to draw write poem and do crafts I'm a mother of 3 2 girls 30 yr old and 14 yr old and 1, 29 year old boy and step mother of 2 boys. I am a widow after 19 years with my love. Who passed away from cancer. But doesn't kill me made me stronger... more…

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