Analysis of Instinctive



Human beings we are.
Born with consciousness.
And minds to use to choose and pick,
Which directions to decide...
The best we can,
To please that choice...
We hope satisfies,
What it is inside of us to believe...
Makes sense.
Yet...
Regardless of intelligence.
And a consciousness to be born with.
There stays to remain within us all,
An animalistic instinctive urge...
To display as if encouraged,
That need to usurp and take away...
From others,
By any means necessary...
What is not ours to have earned it.
But the thrill to steal and destroy,
Is more enjoyed than the sharing...
Of what God has created in abundance!

'Your depiction is suspiciously,
A barbaric description...
Of wild and undomesticated,
Cave dwelling animals.
And not sophisticated human beings.'

I know.
That's why sometimes I wonder,
What intelligence to have it.
With a consciousness,
To use common sense...
Actually means?
When none of that is in abundance.
Here, there or anywhere,
Is applied to be seen!

'Perhaps,
That is still...
God's work in progress.
You know...
Everything has yet to be perfected.'

I guess you are right.
Afterall,
Whose to say,
God is not aware...
Of the mistakes made.
And doing His best to correct them.

'Yeah!
In the most mysterious of ways!'

You've got jokes.

'That maybe true.
But look around.
You see anybody laughing?
I don't.
This madness is sick!'

That depends on how you're looking at it.

'What do you mean?'

Who else but God,
Would have this kind of humor...
Only He is left to understand.

'Now...
That's funny.'

'I think it's hysterical.'

And from my observation...
You are not alone!
However...
Me?
I'm close to throwing up.
From an instinctive incentive,
To purge myself now and not later.

'Have you considered doing stand up?'

Stand up?
Stand up what?

'I know.
That's what makes you funny.'

And...
If I was not serious,
What then would I be?

'A cave dwelling clown!


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Poetic Form
Metre 101011 11100 01111101 101011 0111 1111 1110 1110111101 11 1 01010100 001001111 111010111 110101 10111010 11110101 110 1101100 111101111 10111001 11011010 11110100010 101010100 0010010 1101 110100 0101001010 11 1101110 10100111 10100 11101 1001 111110010 11110 101111 01 111 1101 11 101111010 11111 10 111 11101 10011 010111011 1 001010011 111 1101 1101 11100010 11 11011 1011111011 1111 1111 1111110 10111101 1 110 1110100 011010 11101 10 1 111101 11010010 11110110 110101011 11 111 11 111110 0 1111100 11111 01101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,829
Words 339
Sentences 64
Stanzas 19
Stanza Lengths 22, 5, 9, 5, 6, 2, 1, 5, 1, 1, 3, 2, 1, 7, 1, 2, 2, 3, 1
Lines Amount 79
Letters per line (avg) 18
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 74
Words per stanza (avg) 17
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Submitted by Lp,jr. on November 02, 2021

Modified by Lp,jr. on November 02, 2021

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