Troubled Minds 1



TROUBLED MINDS  1

When our perplexed minds are troubling us,
we can not easily find the right answers
to our vexing problems.
Just  like we can not see our reflections
in  boiling water with aberrations.

Tears were the language of my pain
as the anguish keeps
coming back again and again.

One thing you can be sure about life,
is that not all in life is magical
but  a lot can be diabolical.

Hundreds of choices parents make
in the course of their lives
about their children
be they infants , teenagers or grown ups.
A fraction of a decision they make can be magical
or if you are unfortunate,like me, even that can be diabolical.

The anguish keeps coming back again and again
but life carries on , endlessly on and on.

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Troubled minds, melancholy

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Submitted by badal.pal on July 20, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X XXXAA XXB XCC XXXXCC BX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 712
Words 132
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 1, 5, 3, 3, 6, 2

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