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Damned Words

Victoria L Mineo 1979 (United States)

What are these words
That are stuck in my brain
They rumble and tumble
And drive me insane

Silent they whisper
Then loudly they shout
Let us be free
Please let us all out

Take up your pencile
Take up your pen
Put us on paper
Write us and then

There will be calm
There will be peace
There will be silence
Just give us release

So I take up my pencil
I take up my pen
I put them on paper
I write them and then

I sit back in silence
And start to feel sane
But then these damned words
They start over again
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Submitted by vicimineo on May 10, 2023

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Scheme ABCB DEXE CFDF XGHG CFDF HBAF
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 511
Words 116
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4
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