03-01-2026, 12:40 AM
(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

