In Defeating You, I Slay the World You Live In

In Defeating You, I Slay The World You Live In Stoning you, I slay you , cut into you with hatred in my rapid surging heart Such is very deserved and more is due I try to break your body all apart As you cry for sweet mercy try to think you that lived and wallowed in darkest sin Gleefully you drove me into the brink as you grew the hate that I once lived in Beg, graven coward for any relief as I break another bone for sweet joy Deriding my every moral belief claimed power over me as a mere boy You shame me so, my dark and evil twin I defeat you, sink the world you live in R. J. Lindley, 1973 Poetry Form: Sonnet Poem Syllable Counter Results Syllables Per Line: 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 Total # Syllables: 140 Total # Lines: 17 (Including empty lines) Words with (syllables) counted programmatically: N/A Total # Words: 111