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Family Ties
My mother, the monster of legends of old,
Most terrible witch in all the biz,
Is ancient from all of the lives she has stolen,
Brings pain and disaster, embraces her role and
She takes what she wants. And truth be told,
With all of my heart I despise what she is.
My mother, the monster, for all of her crime
Did raise me with care and kindness, still.
A nightmarish being whose black heart is empty
Except for myself. On occasion it tempts me
To let her embrace me one more time.
I love her despite how her deeds make me ill.
My mother, the monster, who loves me in turn,
Is truly a blight upon this land.
Most terrible witch, and it pains me to say so,
I must stand against her, I can't let her crimes go.
For all she has done, she has to burn.
I love her, but swear she will die by my hand.
Most terrible witch in all the biz,
Is ancient from all of the lives she has stolen,
Brings pain and disaster, embraces her role and
She takes what she wants. And truth be told,
With all of my heart I despise what she is.
My mother, the monster, for all of her crime
Did raise me with care and kindness, still.
A nightmarish being whose black heart is empty
Except for myself. On occasion it tempts me
To let her embrace me one more time.
I love her despite how her deeds make me ill.
My mother, the monster, who loves me in turn,
Is truly a blight upon this land.
Most terrible witch, and it pains me to say so,
I must stand against her, I can't let her crimes go.
For all she has done, she has to burn.
I love her, but swear she will die by my hand.
Despite the assertions of Gregor Mendel,
I eschew my shared traits with the dam of Grendel.
I eschew my shared traits with the dam of Grendel.
Arch-form rhyme scheme?
Careful with that first stanza, though. ‘Stolen’ and ‘role and’ won’t be any obvious rhyme to most readers, and the effect will be to defray the feel of your complex rhyme pattern.
Careful with that first stanza, though. ‘Stolen’ and ‘role and’ won’t be any obvious rhyme to most readers, and the effect will be to defray the feel of your complex rhyme pattern.
This is really dark, and it gives zero context, so I'm left wondering whether I should agree the mother is a terrible person or worry that the speaker is about to do something reprehensible. The rhymes are mostly good, though a few are stretches, and there's no meter, though it doesn't seem like one was intended. I'm afraid this one largely goes over my head, too. It also never elaborates much after the first two lines, the only thing of note added afterward being that the speaker plans to kill her.