Does it Really Matter That it Doesn't
My love
so you have a history
has the past then written it indelibly
all things you think you should be
you respond to all those things
conglomerate
with all the things you think you perceive
And the world does not equate
nor does it equal your tears
or measure your pain
look around you my love
tell me
is your laughter echoing in the world
when does the world touch
or appreciate the heights you have reached
Yes in sorrow you could
if you wish
forever weep
Ah, my love
I have seen you dance
I have watched you reach beyond
and struggle to be above
seen your spirit soar
and witnessed your gratitude
in eyes filled with tears
and lips brimming with smiles
Does the world now hammer you
into some unfitting and peculiar mold
are all those sad things now chiseled into stone
are they carved within you
have they hung their scarecrows in your soul
for the emptying of your heart
and do you fall prostrate before them
a victim
ah, my love
your unrecognized heroism makes you more than that
So you have a history
a life time of doubts and courageous I wanna be's
so the disappointments of all your expectations
never proved to you what you wanted them to be
so you tried and failed
you never knew you would succeed
and still the misappropriation of your intentions
seemed incongruent to your destiny
Is it then by mishap and mischance
that your life at times is defined by happy
has it not held you so close
to all those things you dreamed would be
did you loose them
or live them
within time and its passing scenery
does it matter now
did it matter then
or at any other point at which you choose to begin
each day to redefine your purpose and meaning
So my love
you have a history
and all its weight of yesterday
may drag with you into tomorrow
a typewritten record in your memory
can be depicting your triumphs
or be the tales of your sometime sad regret
does it really matter that it doesn't have any effect
upon this story in writing
this ever changing moment of your living
did you unwittingly forget
all you have today
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Submitted by cmwilliams on November 14, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 2,040 |
Words | 397 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 7, 8, 3, 8, 10, 8, 11, 12 |
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