Analysis of Cocooned Within The Womb
Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)
This Cosmos is vast.
And has a multitude of dimensions.
Countless planets.
Trillions of Suns to call them stars.
Like that star we depend upon.
But not one Sun,
Sits in the center of this massive mystery.
A mystery,
Still expanding endlessly.
'You and your myths and craziness.
Where on Earth do you get this nonsense?'
If up is somewhere else to know it down.
And that down happens to be all around.
With no ending of it to have been found.
To surround both up and down.
This has to be a womb,
We are cocooned within.
'Everything has its limits!
Nothing exists in a 'foreverness' to permit.'
Not even ignorance,
Has proven that assumption.
And assumptions?
Assumptions are nothing more,
Than unending mathematical theories.
'Oh?
Then what is death?
An assumption?'
Have you ever been a caterpillar?
Minding your own business.
Then one day without warning,
You are suddenly cocooned.
To awaken to discover,
Surprised and shocked...
You have become a beautiful butterfly.
And you can't explain the reason why!
'No!
I have never been a caterpillar.
Cocooned and shocked,
I have turned into a butterfly.
Nor have I been strapped into a straitjacket.
And put into a padded cell.
Where I can fly as much as I want.
Until my wings have been clipped.
By being over medicated.'
Come on.
I'm serious.
'I know.
And I wish,
As God is my witness.
That you stop smoking that stuff.
Folks are messing their minds up.
Trying to leave Earth.
By any means necessary.'
Think about it.
'No, I will not.
The last experiment I tried,
Was marriage.
And neither one of the two worked out.
And then one day,
As I was wallowing away in self pity.
Something occurred to me.
I found a cure.'
A cure?
What was it?
'Happiness.
And the joy of knowing,
I had been set free from aggravation.
I actually had been addicted to aggravation.
Once that was gone...
The Angel of Peace of Mind,
Came from nowhere and left it with me.'
We are living within a womb.
A cocoon that is ever changing us...
Into something else more magnificent.
Nothing dies.
We live in one existence to be reborn,
Into another.
Don't you wonder about that?
'If I said yes.
Would you then be satisfied,
I agreed with you?
And then we both can go to a bar.
Have a few drinks.
And hopefully forget,
What I parents started!'
What do our parents have to do with this?
'Think about it.
I know if I was there...
This conversation we are having,
About being cocooned in wombs?
Would have never started.'
Hmmm...
You could be right about that.
There I days when I wish...
Pulling out would have saved me,
From my own regrets and anguish.
Pulling out?
Pulling out from what?
'It's too late to discuss that subject.'
Oh...
I think so too!
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Metre | 11011 010101010 1010 10111111 11110101 1111 100101110100 0100 1010100 10110100 111111110 111111111 0111011101 1110111111 1011101 111101 11101 101110 1001001101 110100 1101010 0010 0101101 1010010010 1 1111 1010 111010100 101110 1110110 111001 10101010 0101 1101010010 011010101 1 111010100 101 11101010 1111101010 01010101 111111111 0111111 11010100 11 1100 11 011 111110 1111011 1110111 10111 1101100 1011 1111 01010011 110 010110111 0111 111100010110 100111 1101 01 111 100 001110 111111010 1100110101010 1111 0101111 11101111 11100101 0011110101 0110110100 101 11010101111 01010 1110011 1111 111110 10111 011111101 1011 010001 111010 11101011111 1011 111111 10101110 0110101 111010 1 1111011 111111 1011111 11101010 101 10111 111101101 1 1111 |
Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 2,686 |
Words | 604 |
Sentences | 83 |
Stanzas | 22 |
Stanza Lengths | 9, 2, 6, 2, 5, 3, 8, 9, 2, 7, 1, 8, 2, 7, 7, 7, 1, 5, 5, 2, 1, 2 |
Lines Amount | 101 |
Letters per line (avg) | 20 |
Words per line (avg) | 5 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 93 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 22 |
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Written on June 06, 2022
Submitted by lpahtillah on June 06, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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