Pain's Truce
I can no longer maintain
After a decade of reveling in pain
Physical and emotions embedded in soul
Purpose and poetry, a first step to becoming whole,
I cannot tell a lie
A virtue of mine despite how hard I try
Honesty a greater fault
A characteristic I will never assault,
I think back on this past decade
And the horrifying trauma that will not fade,
Stigma, hospitals, treatment, depression
All contributing to a decade of recession
As I have no choice but to recluse
Pain and I fortunately have made truce
Since I revel in it no longer
I'm able to draw from it to become stronger
And endless well of subject matter
Filled by a decade's tears patter
Streams and lakes to rivers and oceans
Nothing can rectify our society's sins
As we are ignorant and too lazy to understand
While the hourglass is slowly trickling sand
We would be much better fairing
If we only started caring
About all the pain we perpetuate
About all the pain we create.
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Submitted on January 14, 2010
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 917 |
Words | 172 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 26 |
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