If You Go
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
If you do go.
With it done...
To make your doing of it,
Your final warning.
Leave me to remember your love.
As it was and had been.
Before you admitted it to wish,
For someone else more exciting to be with.
Or...
Could at least attempt,
To pretend to have an imagination.
Instead of promising you,
Never will I lose my youthful performance.
As long as you kept,
Staying to remain the gorgeous woman,
You claimed to have been,
When you knew we were both teenagers.
And you told me when we met.
You were close to 30yrs old.
Although many people,
Who did not recognize you with make up on.
You had convinced them and me too,
That you were much older.
And you were blessed,
To have an appearance and a body...
Like a high school cheerleader.
And if you go with it done.
Leave me to remember,
Those lies you told I fell in love with.
But please...
Please take with you,
The woman I thought I knew.
To have become someone else,
I can no longer promise...
To keep my imagination to pretend that bad,
I want it back.
You've done enough as it is,
To kill my excitement years ago.
So...
Let us both know,
Aging to do...
Some do it gracefully.
While others refuse to disbelieve,
What they once to use to have going on.
Has gone.
With the cheese, the dip and chips...
And all that is sad to see it sag!
'OH YEAH?
So tell me what's really on your mind!'
'You threatening to go!'
'That was a warning not a threat.
'Can you do both,
Closer to the door.
Open it and leave me,
With fresh air to breathe?
And I promise you,
I will do my best...
Not to beg you to stay!'
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Written on November 13, 2023
Submitted by lpahtillah on November 13, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,557 |
Words | 368 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 26, 10, 11, 2, 1, 1, 7 |
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