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I got two main thoughts from this, but first, for me, the theme & content seem to be a poem struggling to get out or maybe to decide what kind of poem it wants to be.
First impression was you don't have english as your first language, then I wondered if maybe you were sacrificing good english for the sake of the rhyme. If so, you shouldn't; english is versatile enough you can find other ways to achieve what this deserves without compromising the quality of english used.
In the 1st 3 verses, the scheme (the pattern or rhythm) keeps changing. To me, in free verse, you can do that, but when a poet establishes a particular rhythmic pattern, you change it at your peril. People fall into the original pattern & expect it to continue. You can normally change away from it once, to emphasize or shift mood or similar, but to keep swapping to a different scheme simply loses your readers. (my thoughts only OK? I'm hardly a poetic expert)
Perhaps something like...
“I hate you” I’d yell
“I hate him” I’d tell
Lying is truly art
‘Cause it’s a lie
right to my heart
We both behave
like royal kings
I merely flap
my broken wings
Broken by a broken heart
True in every part
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*He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway) 
*Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? - Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)
*Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it - Moses Hadas
*He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know - Abraham Lincoln
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