Analysis of Between Selfish and Selfless



Between Selfish and Selfless

Between selfish and selfless there is a very fine line,
A balance between advancing what’s mine and what’s thine.
To preserve your salvation and for me to be there too,
Can lend a parallel trajectory in common things that we do.

The world spins around for everyone, but has an axis of it alone,
We cast our own personas to everyone else, but to ourselves and to ourselves alone do we atone.

To want to help ourselves is a desire that comes necessarily first;  
instilled from birth, we need to survive so we feed our desire’s thirst.
We learn to help others as community,
But to help others who are not as blessed or counteractively cursed,
Is a sense of pride, a mark of sacredness or a possible opportunity.

We stride in silence or walk with a voice,
In a direction of our common choice.
Between selfish and selfless there is a balance of perception.
A bridge between our perspectives through malice and deception.

A choice to reach out is to reconcile community to one.
How else do we connect all of life to our one sun.

Religion and science are two sides of one tale - exploring inwards and outwards, we succeed and we fail;
Two sides of one coin; two choices in a binary game;
Two sides of one story and two choices to blame.

Advocation is my art of spinning the story,
I dare to impugn my perspective through allegory.
The choice remains yours to perceive your own view.
We can walk our own paths or together plough through.

Symbiosis is two lives living together for a common goal;
This exists in nature for both those who may or may not have a soul.

Between everything snd nothing, there is a very fine line,
As we journey through existence, the best thing we share is time.


Scheme X AABB CC DDEDE FFGG GG XHH EEBB II AX
Poetic Form
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Closest metre Iambic octameter
Characters 1,727
Words 349
Sentences 17
Stanzas 10
Stanza Lengths 1, 4, 2, 5, 4, 2, 3, 4, 2, 2
Lines Amount 29
Letters per line (avg) 47
Words per line (avg) 11
Letters per stanza (avg) 136
Words per stanza (avg) 31

About this poem

I wrote this inspired by my student at that time, Noor, who always had so much to contribute to life …

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Written on June 25, 3021

Submitted by Arman_1 on October 27, 2023

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Arman Hoque

Founder of Empyrean Law and Senior Counsel, Arman Hoque holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Windsor in addition to a Master’s degree in Public Administration and a B.A. degree in Law and Society from the Ivy League Cornell University. In July 2004, he was called to the bar as barrister, solicitor, and notary public, following Articles with a prestigious Queen’s Counsel Firm. He worked in association with several prominent law firms and sage mentors to develop his high standard before establishing his own practice. Since then, he has grown his law firm. Focused on his compassion for access to justice, Mr. Hoque has received news attention for cases he has fought and won for his clients spanning 15 years of practice. He has contributed to precedents in the legal community and has been awarded numerous accolades recognizing his devotion to the law. For his clients, he uses his formidable cumulative knowledge and world-spanning experiences to effectively turn their real into as close to their ideal as legally possible. He has been a poet most his life, having self-published a volume in 1993 by honour of his patron father. more…

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