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 |
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 0110010 01100101101011 0100101001001 10110100111111 1101001000101111 01101110111101101 11101111011100101001011101 1111001100101101001 011111101111100101 11111010100 1111011111111 10111011100101000100 1101011101 00010110101 0110010110101010 0101100101100010 011111110010011 11110111111011 0100101111110101010101011 11111110001001 111110011011 010111110010 1110110101100 01011101111 1111011101011 0101111001010101 10101011111111101 01101101101011 111010100111111 |
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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