In Search....

Meshack Bwoyele Keya 1960 (Vihiga)



In search, searching and searching
Am in search
In the search for things too many.
I search for peace
And searching for love.
I searched for pleasure
And none did I receive.

I received hate and war.
Nobody ever did me, love.
So desperate I became
In my search for many things.
Yet I searched on.

I ran after money
Yet it evaded me all along.
My search for perfection
Yielded imperfection
And I kept on searching.
Soon I will fall dead
And stop all my searching
Without finding anything.

About this poem

Man will die unsatisfied in his search

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Submitted by baby_p on June 03, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

27 sec read
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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXBXCXX XCXXX BXDDAXAA
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 467
Words 90
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 5, 8

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