No names but empty faces



I walked streets with no names
Exchanged false smiles
which gave me pain
Meet women in transit and plain faces
Layered by paint and false eye lashes
Strange faces lost for
destinations beyond reach
Many others sat silently with out  speech

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Written on September 08, 2020

Submitted by Poetry@80 on April 02, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 249
Words 45
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 8

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