I`m Not Okay [I promise]...[Terzanelle]

I`m not okay [I promise],
Stuck on memories;
I`m not okay [I promise].

I`m weak in the knees,
The butterflies are dying --
Stuck on memories.

Stuck here, still trying;
To understand you again,
The butterflies are dying.

"Forever and ever, amen" --
Your words that left me trying,
To understand you again.

My fabricated smiles are lying,
Because I`m falling, in spite of --
Your words that left me trying.

Breaking down, still so in love;
I bullshit my way through our fights,
Because I`m falling, in spite of --

All the times you were so right,
About me and my broken heart,
I bullshit my way through our fights...

You told me lies from the start,
About me and my broken heart --
I`m not okay [I promise],
I`m not okay [I promise].

-Jenna Elphick
September 9, 2007

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The Terzanelle is a poetry type which is a combination of the villanelle and the terza rima forms. It is a 19-line poem consisting of five interlocking triplets/tercets plus a concluding quatrain in which the first and third lines of the first triplet appear as refrains. The middle line of each triplet is repeated, reappearing as the last line of the succeeding triplet with the exception of the center line of the next-to-the-last stanza which appears in the quatrain.