Drifters In Humanity
Lost identities of highway rescue deft
right hand glove on the left
how much can you remember?
Holding on to today, sleeping cold December
life's lighting, speeding will to train
steam engines build up combustion of some strain
order our directions to a heading
crossroads intersection destiny and spreading
uplifted of a mood in temporary bask
scenic room changes, switching their own mask
kept barely together, glued to a task
degrees into a needle tip, encompassing a life
busybody friction positive attitude rife
people peripheral vision side by side
composed images of they, quietly they tried
cultured, shock, class and resistant
changes always changing, always inconsistent
into their nightly beds, out into pieces
this complicated never-ending story, increases
short to long term, committed dream releases
About this poem
This poem is about the homeless crisis in America and around the world and how a person's life can be transformed at times from that state of being homeless back into something more. I categorized the poem under lyrical because I am a song writer and often use my poems as lyrics.
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Written on December 05, 2020
Submitted by Soul-to-song on May 10, 2022
Modified on March 23, 2023
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| Scheme | AABBCCDDEEEFFGGHHIII |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 813 |
| Words | 126 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 20 |
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