Analysis of THE PATH TO THE VOID
NORBERTO FRANCO CISNEROS 1937 (Texas)
THE PATH TO THE VOID
Others may come after the white man
to make another notch on that metal post of history,
of justice and to share resources to avoid extinction
Something someone thought of a long time ago
But the end of this struggle will not be known in our lifetime
the unknown, an ominous word that surrounds the white man
lives inside his skull attached to his body and
Yet he is not the proprietor of his conscience
In whispered tones he speaks in riddles couched in hypocrisy
Trying to understand and exert his intentions
His actions confuse the rest of humankind
His interior mind bursts with pseudo kindnesses
Like trying to teach the brown man to live without greed
but the white man is a prime practitioner of it
the white man was certainly no deity regardless of his pretensions
he was not adroit enough to possess the wisdom of Gods
To give advice to brown people
He survives due to his personal accumulation of resources
At a time when the world needs more brotherhood and camaraderie
Survival and extinction demand it
Man purposefully ignores the reality staring him in the face
he proceeds as if he controls time and resources
but time and resources are not finite the reality is
he grows old and fat as people grow thin and die
The world is literally falling apart while humanity is starving
man’s own greedy hunger devours the planet
unable to stop his insatiable, selfish appetite
he has created a path to the void and our extinction.
Scheme | X ABCX XAXD BEXD XFEX XGBF XGGX XXXC |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 01101 101110011 110101111011100 110011100101010 1011101101 101111011110101 00111001101011 101110111100 1111001001110 010111010100100 101010011010 1100101110 10100111101 1101101111011 1011101010011 0111100110001011010 111010110101011 11011110 10111110000101100 101101111000100 0100010011 1100001010101001 1011110110100 1101001110101 111011101101 0111000100110100110 111010010010 01011101001010 1101001101010010 |
Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 1,479 |
Words | 280 |
Sentences | 2 |
Stanzas | 8 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
Lines Amount | 29 |
Letters per line (avg) | 41 |
Words per line (avg) | 9 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 149 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 33 |
About this poem
ENVIRONMENT AND THE GREED THAT'S TAKEN US THERE
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Written on November 21, 2021
Submitted by cisneros37 on November 21, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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