Wisdom is not Borrowed.
Roger McArthur 1978 (Cairns)
What sort of crazy are we all heading towards.
When will the day come we no longer draw swords.
Will we find wisdom and start to seek love and peace.
Or do we fail and this world is fleeced.
Those moments I have had that hold the joy .
Of life itself and being there to see my boy.
Birth is the beginning and we get so messy in between.
But it is not crazy and hate all we have seen.
Words do not carry the same effect.
Or actions that go hard and wreck.
Lives of many to easily broken.
From a small ignorant action or token.
We will never truly be whole and one.
Some day no longer we will have a sun.
That is when we will truly see.
How badly behaved we can be.
This is a choice and many wont follow.
To live with love and not the hollow.
To forgive and move on pride we must swallow.
As time is something we can not borrow.
About this poem
Reflections of life
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Written on December 12, 2023
Submitted by RogerMcArthur on December 11, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 831 |
Words | 193 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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