Analysis of Colonizers



Maybe I exist in empty spaces
Quick glances, vacant stares,
Vacuum chambers of yearning
Void of air and touch, bereft of purpose and meaning
Alternating between belligerence and helplessness,

Waiting to dry up like raisins;
Sweet on the tongue,
Swallowed up by larger things
And expelled into space
Like dead skin from a body.
Floating through the daily dust bowl
of recycled needs,
to be dropped ashore;
The peninsular colonization of the groin
Lays waste to everything
Rail tracks of desire laid into the hinterlands
For my riches to be borne away.


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Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 553
Words 101
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 5, 12
Lines Amount 17
Letters per line (avg) 26
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 225
Words per stanza (avg) 46

About this poem

This poem is about desire, the relentless need for affection and intimacy and how the lack of it consumes and ravages one akin to the economic and social destruction left behind by colonizers.

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Written on August 05, 2023

Submitted by Waldensoul on February 10, 2024

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Arun Sankar (Waldensoul)

Immigrant worker in the land of the free. Poems are my literary response to living, I guess. more…

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