City Of Broken Souls
The city is littered with broken souls
To reside among nature, the purest of goals
Some dream of vast fields of green
Deep in their minds, a vivid scene
Chained to the nightmare of city life
Fractured daily by overwhelming strife
Yearning to escape and breathe country air
Just a single breath can ease your despair
Held captive in the city for most of my years
Drowning internally in a tsunami of tears
I worked myself right to the bone
To have a little cottage to call my own
I retired there at the age of sixty six
To dwell in my garden and feed my chicks
City life was a battle that cut me deep to my core
Today I stand the smiling victor, ‘tis I who won the war
About this poem
This poem is about a man who is sharing his life story and the hardship that he endured struggling to live in a city when his heart craved to be among nature in a more rural setting, he felt like a prisoner in the city, unable to break free, but he worked his socks off and made his dream a reality for the twilight of his life, and was never happier.
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Written on May 15, 2024
Submitted by Lee_Geoghegan on May 15, 2024
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| Scheme | AABB CCDD XXEE FFGG |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 671 |
| Words | 134 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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