Contemplation
Joy Sengupta 1980 (Maharashtra)
As the end game comes close
I knock, and I scream,
Did I live?
No, I didn’t, it was a happy dream.
I died long back,
The present me, wanted the sky
I couldn’t even reach the stars
On the soil wrapped in mud, I will die.
Life gave me a good chance.
“Be good, live nice once more”
I heard life, and said,
“I would, I would live for sure.”
But the seasons turned, and I grew grey,
I just thought again, I died, And I laid,
Death came to me, when I was alive,
As the bees leave the nest,
When the Queen is eaten, when alive.
Sometimes I feel, I would survive,
What I did, was pure, was good, and would thrive,
Now, after years, when I recoil,
I see my life all on earth, staked in the soil.
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It’s something that I should have done.
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Written on February 18, 2022
Submitted by jsengupta20 on February 18, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XABA XCXC XXXX XXBXB BBDD |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 726 |
Words | 167 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 5, 4 |
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