Escapes

Robert loughran 1962 (Ireland)



The anxious mind seeks only escape,
to where it doesn't matter.
Philosophy .faith ,the nearest gate,
 a relationship in which to fester.
.
The conscious mind seeing all this,
 knows in love we must abide.
  And all the fabrications of our desires,
from truth they can not hide.

 So the battle is between,
  what we know, and what we feel.
.We support our wants with  convenient reasons,
while truth alone is real.

If fear and want drive us,
then love can have no place.
No matter how many imposters,
our fevered minds create.

About this poem

About escapes and how they lead not to growth but repetition

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Written on February 28, 2024

Submitted by robertl.92681 on February 28, 2024

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XABA CDXD XEXE XXCB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 528
Words 110
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 9, 4, 4

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