Analysis of Cost To Pay At Their Loss



Heated impatience remains to await,
Someone to come to push...
That bubble up to boil button.

To know exactly what it is they do too!

However...
Disappointment has always been,
A killer of lip licking anticipations.
The nail-biting, goosebump thrill,
Contemplated.
Envisioning a defending rebuttal.
To that which is too obviously a setup.
By one seeking a confrontation.
Not an ignored shown indifference!

Minds addicted to ignorance,
Are homegrown tantrum throwers.
Wanting an attention,
They are determined to get.
By any means necessary.
As witnessed by the most atrocious event,
In recent insurrection committed to do times.

And...
If this is not given what is expected?
In return?
Prepare for havoc, conflict and confusion.
From others recruit to inflict,
Delusion fictioned twisted in myths.

Raising up roofs in neighbors!
With no one wanting to be involved.
Why are the black folks,
Chased by the media and made to respond...
To such B.S.
As if to anticipate us to sing,
'We Shall Overcome' in perfect harmony.
Comeon.
Wassup wit dat! That stuff is whacked out.
For real!

And...
Just to prove what fools do?
To pay the cost at their loss?

How many times must we see,
The re-runs of the same movie?
Geeessshhh.
And updated to window dress.
With a different random generic cast.
Performing convincing stupidity.
Matching a familiarity with their past!
Or closely had with ancestors.

'Here we go, yet again.
A provoker of Critical Race Theories.'

'What has been documented with evidence.
Researched, discussed.
And remembered to reminisce,
Is not a theory or a myth.
But a reality that is so upsetting,
Racists are calling it racism.
That's how ridiculous,
People have made themselves to be seen!


Scheme xxa b xxcxxxxad deaxfxx Gxxaxx exxxchfaxx Gbx ffcxifie xx dxxxhxxx
Poetic Form
Metre 1001001101 11111 11011110 11010111111 10 010111 01011100010 011011 100 01000010010 11111100001 11100010 110110100 10101100 1111010 101010 1101011 1101100 11010101001 010010010111 0 11111011010 001 01110100010 11001101 01011001 1011010 111101101 11011 11010001101 111 111010111 1110001100 1 11111111 11 0 111111 1101111 1101111 01110110 1 00101101 10100100101 0100100100 1000100111 1101110 111101 011100110 1111001100 0101 0010101 11010101 1010111010 10110110 110100 101101111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,645
Words 282
Sentences 46
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 3, 1, 9, 7, 6, 10, 3, 8, 2, 8
Lines Amount 57
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 134
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted by lpahtillah on June 24, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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