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Letting you go

Flora Sweeney 1946 (USA)

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Oh how it hurts
to let you go.

To let you hate me
without letting you know.

You try to understand
why I'm acting so strange.

I can't begin to tell you
I don't even know.

That person inside me
is on a rampage
tearing down everything
I've worked so hard to attain.

This person is hurting you
I can't let it go on.

So I'll just exit
and pray you'll survive.

I know that you need me
I need you even more.

But that person inside me
says it's you or it's me!

About this poem

This is about a person figuring out, late in life, that they are gay. Needing to let go of a friend they are attracted to.

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Written on August 01, 1979

Submitted by Womanborn46 on April 08, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XA BA XX CA BXXX CX XX BX BB
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 460
Words 110
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 2, 2, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2
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