Analysis of We Die Young

Amogelang Disebo 1994 (Mahikeng, North West)



What is life if not a meaningless gamble?!
Death was never just a fable.
One minute we are dreaming,
The next, we are saints who are now sinning.
What if this is only a lucid dream?!
What if we only wake up after we die?!
Souls timidly tainted in silent screens...
Death is the only heavenly chariot we bitterly ride.
We're only ephemerons to this masquerade,
Which mask to wear to hide this pain?!
Triple dose of my prescribed poison,
We were raised on moderated toxins.
I'd rather be served my poison by my father...
Tell mother that she's the reason I fight with my brother!
We unknowingly  made a covenant with the angel of death.
Hence curses follow us from our birth.
We're  not the beautiful types,
Nor are we the confident kind.
We are the salt,
We are the  unflavoured water...
We've been through it all...
Fought demons and married dragon's daughters.
We die young,
For we're the chosen ones.


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Poetic Form
Metre 11111010010 11101010 1101110 0111111110 1111100101 11110111011 1100100101 1101010010011001 11011101 11111111 101110110 101110010 110111101110 11011010111110 1010010100101011 1101011101 1101001 11101001 1101 110110 11111 1100101010 111 110101
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 904
Words 185
Sentences 18
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 24
Lines Amount 24
Letters per line (avg) 29
Words per line (avg) 7
Letters per stanza (avg) 694
Words per stanza (avg) 165

About this poem

Dedicated to the loved ones we lost due to suicide.

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Written on December 26, 2022

Submitted by Amozing_Wright on December 26, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Amogelang Disebo

I started writing poetry as raps back in 2008 in grade 08 in my mother language (SeTswana) and a little bit of English. I knew from there that poetry is mu calling. more…

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