Dancing skeletons
I swear with every glass of wine I drink I see skeletons in my glass.
They cry and they laugh,
Make me reminisce my past,
They even swear I’m not over what you did to me.
And I know they live there,
And I know it’s not fair
But I fall under their spell
Every time.
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Submitted on June 11, 2020
Modified on March 14, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 262 |
| Words | 56 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 8 |
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