BIG
You are big
I am small
Under your foot
is where I live
with each step
That you take
I am crushed
Just like an ant
You are big
I am small
I am not worthy
Of your love
So I poured
My soul in
And believed
When you said
“Forever, we’ll be friends”
You are big
I am small
I just wanted
To feel loved
I brought you flowers
I’d get you gifts
The front of the theater
We would sit
I hear them say
I tried so hard
“Poor girl, just
wanted To buy your love”
Shame for them
To be so wrong
I loved
to make you smile
You’d look
I’d see
That sweetness
in your eyes
It was more
Than enough for me
You are big
I am small
I thought you’d be
my friend for life
I look up
You are a tree
There I am
I’m but a leaf
It’s Autumn now
The wind blows
There I fall
Like a sheaf
To you
I am
only but one leaf
Not much value
To you I see
But you had meant
So much to me
There she is, someone new
And with me you were through
I knew
that Christmas Eve
That you wanted a future
Without me
That is when
the plot began
Saying things
That only we knew
To hurt my heart
to lash out on you
My only wish
If given one
Would be that people knew
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I’m big
You’re small
How does it feel
To rise and fall?
The tides they change
like people do
Some rise up
with healed wounds
others you trust
Turn their backs on you
The pain of that
Is more than a bruise
I’m big
You’re small
It is so painful
I do recall
You cry out loud
Your tears fall.
You can’t stand
You can only crawl
About this poem
All that is big will be made small
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Written on April 15, 2023
Submitted by letmefeel.the.sommer.rains on April 15, 2023
Modified by letmefeel.the.sommer.rains on April 15, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 1,691 |
Words | 369 |
Stanzas | 15 |
Stanza Lengths | 8, 9, 6, 16, 7, 5, 13, 9, 2, 1, 1, 2, 4, 2, 7 |
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