This Life
This life is not my native land.
This mortgaged lot of heart and hand
With lease of mind to understand
This life is not my native land.
This world is not my native place.
This mortgaged plot of time and space
With peace of mind to know in grace
This world is not my native place.
My living world is far away.
Beyond the gates of night and day,
Beyond the straits of come what may
Where now I bide but will not stay!
About this poem
We don't come from here and so when our time on Earth is up, we return Home. So many people find this concept so hard to comprehend.
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Submitted by susannaelliott on April 27, 2024
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 417 |
Words | 92 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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