The Silly Hope
She wrote me a letter
She will come tomorrow
It was wonderful
I stayed waiting
Every day I read the letter
I will wait for tomorrow
To see and meet
My beloved promised to come
I was then eighteen
My emotions, my feelings
Twisted for a person
Whom I had not seen
I waited and waited
Since my eighteenth
Until I became eighty
I could not wait for more
I wrote to her and asked
When would come tomorrow
Please come today
And the other day
Someone knocked on the door
I opened
I saw a beautiful woman
Standing and smiling
I felt, just felt
I looked into my pocket
It was full of money
But empty of love
I said sorry and closed the door
I am still waiting tomorrow
I know, never and never
Will come tomorrow
But that silly hope
Lost today.
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Submitted on June 16, 2019
Modified on March 14, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 733 |
Words | 145 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 34 |
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