The Captivitatis Wolves
In Wake of New Events 2005 (Illinois)
I enter my demise as if it were my home, welcoming it with open arms
The bushes take them and turn them into scars
The wolves came fast, like race cars driving down their tracks
They looked like one as they came in their pack
They came to take my body and the bones that don’t belong to me
Might as well take my eyes so I cannot see
When the wolves finally caught up to me, tearing my lungs out of my ribs
They took what animals usually take, so they might live
And as I lie there, gathering what little I had left of my hands
I enter my demise as if it were my home, once again.
About this poem
I imagine the wolves being stronger beings preying on the narrator, who can be whatever the reader thinks it is. The point is to have the reader imagine what it's like to be consistently giving to the thieving society.
Written on November 19, 2021
Submitted by inwakeofnewevents on November 19, 2021
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XX XX AA XX XX |
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Closest metre | Iambic heptameter |
Characters | 586 |
Words | 125 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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