Analysis of Off The Rails



Off the rails.
And pledging to prevail,
Their allegiance to violence.
With the promise of a power.
That destroys and ends,
Entitlements taken for granted.
Not to earn but given.

And yet they have expectations,
To control and rule over a democracy.
Taught and made to believe,
Too much emphasis on diversity...
Has begun to ruin the image,
That symbolizes...
A white is right authority.
Fading away from a fictional base.
Built on a foundation sold to sell.
But has begun to reveal,
Cracks exposed of those...
With celebrated pretentious faces.
Imitating idols faked to not exist.

Off the rails.
Yet determined to reach,
A concrete destination to envision it.
With their barbaric allegiance to violence.
And...
Stubbornly believing,
Themselves to be the chosen ones.
Self inflicted, drugged and addicted.
To a fixation historically fictioned.

And they just may be,
Chosen!
Chosen to be observed as the element,
Destroying humanity.
A disease-causing enemy of the people!

'How and why,
Can you assess our progress made...
In such a negative and cynical way!
And you claim to be patriotic?'

'I don't claim it.
I am extremely patriotic.
And that I need not prove to you.
However,
I will say this...
No matter how much power you grab,
To believe yourself finally worshipped.
Guess what?'

'What?
Go ahead and humor me.'

'Everything you believe is yours to own.
To claim alone is yours to take?
That hand you bite to spite your nose,
Done to perceive...
Will not have you the one that bleeds.
Remember,
You alone did not create to make.
Who do you think,
Sacrificed to allow you to enjoy...
Not only the cake.
But also the ingredients,
To permit you to exclusively feast.
While you turned your back and laughed!'

'You people.
Always come up,
With these weird expressions.
Know this,
When we obtain power...
Independent we will be.
Having no need for your diversity.'

'You mean...
Good fortune!'

'No.
I mean...
Good luck.
Your fortune to have had it,
You alone...
Will one day regret,
Taking for granted the taste.
And greatness of it to miss.'

'And you?
What will you miss?'

'Hmmm...
Good question.
I probably will not miss but reminisce,
The wasting of my time...
Wishing to once want to be,
As equally blind as you are.
However...
God has blessed me,
To overcome and quickly heal...
For all my bad decisions to have made.
With a learning not to be persuaded,
By stupid decisions others make!'

'The only thing stupid I have done,
Is to listen to your nonsense.'

'Checkmate!
Although I will admit,
Being back on track...
Has kept me from chasing,
A fast moving train too late to catch!'

'What?
You people,
Are not only amusing.
But very entertaining.
Chasing a fast moving train,
Too late to catch.
That's hysterical!

'Enjoy.
First as long as time permits!'


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Poetic Form
Metre 101 010101 10101100 10101010 10101 010010110 111110 0111010 101011000100 101101 1110010100 101110010 1100 01110100 1001101001 110010111 1101101 10111 110001010 1001011101 101 101011 00101010101 110100101100 0 100010 01110101 101010010 10010010001 01111 10 10110110100 0100100 001101001010 101 11011011 01010001001 01111010 1111 11010010 01111111 10 1111 110111011 1010110010 11 1 1010101 101011111 11011111 11111111 1101 11110111 010 101110111 1111 101011101 11001 11000100 1011101001 1111101 110 111 111010 11 110110 010111 1011110100 11 110 1 11 11 1101111 101 11101 1011001 0101111 01 1111 1 110 1100111101 010111 1011111 11001111 10 1111 1100101 1111010111 1010111010 110010101 010110111 11101110 1 11101 10111 111110 011011111 1 110 1110010 110010 1001101 1111 10100 01 1111101
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 2,783
Words 604
Sentences 80
Stanzas 17
Stanza Lengths 7, 13, 9, 5, 4, 8, 2, 13, 7, 2, 8, 2, 12, 2, 5, 7, 2
Lines Amount 108
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 124
Words per stanza (avg) 28
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Submitted by lpahtillah on December 06, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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