Wasted words



What happens to words untold?
Do they crawl quietly to the Crematorium?
Or do they fly to the Graveyard?
And meditate eternally below the sand?
Or they just die like a sheep?
In denial of outcry?
Perhaps they wait hopelessly for
an outflow that will never come.

Or will they vanish?

About this poem

The poem is simply about the resentment that comes with people who do not fully embrace who they are. Time is the most valuable currency and some people do not use it, whereby they end in regret.

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Written on January 17, 2023

Submitted by kabelomatsimbi2001 on January 16, 2023

Modified on March 14, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXXXXXA X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 283
Words 59
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 8, 1

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