It's probably shameful and going to make people think less of me for posting this, but I feel like I ought to.
Or actually... nevermind, I'm not going to post it. If you want to read my ballad, you get to send me a note and I'll send it to you via a response note. Needless to say I've made too many of my friends weep from reading it already, so I don't want to subject anyone to it who doesn't want to read it.
I poured my soul into this, it's the second draft - my first draft was regrettably deleted in an rm accident.
I'm afraid I go from using iambic tetrameter and iambic trimeter with ABCB rhyme pattern to a more freeform style (no iambic