My love
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(03-01-2026, 12:00 AM)wizzpower Wrote:  My love


T’was involuntary, can’t help myself
But I was lost the moment I saw you.
Though many years with me, yourself and I
But, still, I see half of my heart in you.



So, metrically, it isn't a tough fix.  Rhyming you with you isn't great.  "Yourself and I" is interesting and I feel like the first look into the actual author/narrator in this case.  It is tough to get the rhyme for it though, we could force a demotion on the "I" and think of something interesting that would rhyme on the demoted version (I am going to try hand, I in this case just for demonstration)  of course, if I do that, the reader will think I am forcing the rhyme on the second so an old trick would be to bring the constructed rhyme up so it naturally settles into the original rhyme as a pleasant surprise:

It was involuntary - reaching for your hand, I
caught myself that first time standing close
as years passed by, filled with me, yourself and I
find myself again, reaching for that hand I chose

etc, etc . . .

try continuing in that vein - find interesting natural  language that says what you - an honest real human being that has had real experience - feel sometimes.  Try to use interesting comparisons and language but make it real and make it yours

Thanks
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Messages In This Thread
My love - by wizzpower - 03-01-2026, 12:00 AM
RE: My love - by milo - 03-01-2026, 12:17 AM
RE: My love - by wizzpower - 03-01-2026, 12:26 AM
RE: My love - by milo - 03-01-2026, 12:40 AM
RE: My love - by wizzpower - 03-01-2026, 10:08 AM
RE: My love - by milo - 03-01-2026, 10:15 AM
RE: My love - by wizzpower - 03-01-2026, 10:34 AM
RE: My love - by wizzpower - 03-01-2026, 08:01 PM
RE: My love - by milo - 03-01-2026, 08:37 PM
RE: My love - by wizzpower - 03-01-2026, 09:37 PM
RE: My love - by wizzpower - 03-02-2026, 09:47 PM
RE: My love - by wasellajam - 03-02-2026, 10:14 PM
RE: My love - by wizzpower - 03-03-2026, 03:49 PM



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