This Love



The when is an indistinct blur
The how is what she remembers and craves
The end is what took away her hope,
And still, she believed.

She'd taken the road
Before.
But she still believed.
After three, she knew that two,
Cannot become one,
Nor partners can they be.

June, moon, swoon,
This love was a cruel joke
And still, she believed.
After four, she had to believe,
To live.

About this poem

"This Love" speaks of relationships and very distinct forms of love one feels at various intervals of one's life.

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Written on April 16, 1997

Submitted by Devrascribe on August 23, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme xxxA xxaxxx xxAxx
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 376
Words 82
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 6, 5

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