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Beaten

Arpan Dey 2004 (West Bengal)

Why struggle?
Why fight for a better world?
Don’t you realize?
You're running out of time?
You’ll go one day.
Your efforts will fade away.
Life is too short;
No point struggling.
But what do you do?
Life’d come to a standstill
If you sit idle:
Staying alive, but not living.
What’s living anyway?
In such a depressing world?
Even for laughing out loud
You need to force yourself.
You’re beaten
Beaten by the system
Beaten
Beaten
You’re beaten
Beaten
Beaten until
Finally
You’re beaten by death.
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Submitted on March 15, 2021

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Characters 507
Words 87
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 25
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Arpan Dey

Arpan Dey, 16, is a high school student from India. He is interested in mathematics, modern physics, the metaphysics of science and interdisciplinary sciences. He is a young member of the Junior Academy of the New York Academy of Sciences. Several of his science articles have been published in Young Scientists Journal. He is also a senior member of the Young Scientists Journal editorial team. He likes to read and write in his leisure time. He has published with Amazon his book on the Harry Potter universe and also a collection of short stories. He wishes to pursue physics in the future. more…

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