Doreen
Fearing the worst we saw her off to hospital
when her leg turned black for the lack
of a fair supply of the red stuff.
Her life flashing before our eyes,
kept our tongues busy with what we knew
but did not see. The cloud they both lived under
had not glimpsed blue skies for years.
The boy's not wired up right, his father said
of the grandson who lived with them and gave
grave abuse without relief unless you count
a week away with other family.
She was heroic, refusing to give him up;
the Old Man forced into muteness
by the blackmail of love.
They called us near the end, screened her off.
We sensed the nearness of the hearse
and heard her dying words,
“don’t let him know what's in your purse”.
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Submitted on February 24, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | X X X A X X X X X X X X A X X B X B |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 692 |
Words | 135 |
Stanzas | 18 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1 |
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