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Potlatch Poetry Club ~ Canzonetta ~ week of 6-17-20 23
Forgive Anyway by Jessica Wheeler
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It's time that I regain control
For I have given you too much
The past will take an endless toll
If I don't break free from its clutch

A hopeless plea, you will not get
A little girl, I did not stay
You let me down with no regret
And I'll forgive you anyway.

The stand I needed you to take
You never cared enough to give
There's nothing more for you to break
And I don't need your love to live

From what you chose, I choose to heal
Your unsaid words will have no say
I'll grant you what you cannot steal
And I'll forgive you anyway.

The hits I took, not by your hand
But never did you once protect
I only hope you understand
The hardest hit was your neglect

What's done is done; I can't undo
But I won't waste another day
The peace I make won't come from you
And I'll forgive you anyway.

 

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Canzonetta ~ week of 6-17-20 23

The Canzonetta is at least 2 octaves, made up of 2 quatrains of alternating rhyme.

-written with no fixed meter or line length.
- composed with a refrain, repeated in L8 of each octave.
-rhymed, ababcdcD, efefgdgD. And so on...

     

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