On The Qui Vive : A Letter To My Mother
I watched through the window as you, sweet mother did grieve,
Since dear daughter went missing, twas your first Christmas Eve,
Police patrolled the streets in search, On The Qui Vive,
I watched the tears in your eyes, your fingers and hair inter weaved,
If I could I would have explained the necessity I leave,
but condemned I would be, for you would never believe.
I know tis unfair for me to up and abandon,
the one person I could always rely on as a companion,
but dear mother, my love now is a dangerous assassin,
killing everything I touch with an extreme passion.
How do you explain to your mother your need for a revolver?
How do you explain that she lost her 'innocent' daughter?
If you knew how many lives I had taken I would live in dishonor,
and that is the real reason for my letter and departure.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 796 |
Words | 151 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 6, 4, 4 |
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