Can't Run Away
They lure me with wealth in heaven
as if plucking a pubic hair
would reduce weight of the dead body
they don’t see the bruises abandoned
on the fading skin of apple
that rolls metaphors in the basket
sleeplessly I watch her drift in dreams
on the horizon float to descend
for a share in the horrors of earth
they blindly conceal to hoodwink
god’s will for poets cultured in the past
now glittering as the sun’s wreckage
I can’t clean nor rebuild around them
the hell is real I can’t run away
with sweet nothing, I can’t die in bluff
About this poem
The poem is a sarcastic remark on exploitation of a simple person's faith and deceit in love.
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Written on January 13, 2025
Submitted by profrksingh on January 13, 2025
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| Scheme | XXX XXX XXX XXX XXX |
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| Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
| Characters | 550 |
| Words | 106 |
| Stanzas | 5 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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