I Use To Wonder( But Now I Know)

Pamela Yvette Derry 1953 (San Antonio)



I wonder
Why do people hate
Why so much poverty
Why can’t we close that gate

Why people sleep out in the cold
Why education is not accessible to all souls
Why must we fight to have affordable care
Why must we die in so much despair

But now I know
Heartless people
Who flourish in greed
They see only their vanity
While others suffer in vain
They care not for humanity
They operate without sanity
 The depraved heart
Now I know

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Submitted by Pameladerry210 on October 21, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

24 sec read
9

Quick analysis:

Scheme XABA XXCC DXXBXBBXD
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 419
Words 82
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 9

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