Indifference



I pull myself out of their indifference
God is laughing
at their missing conscience...
They’ll pray and speak their good intentions
They’ll eat your soul with their knife and vengeance

And I need a miracle to get out of this war

His conscience gone and
they called him soldier
He pushed them out beyond their borders
He gave his love for lustful murder
He won their lives saved his confessions

And we need a miracle to get out of this one

He spoke to devils in tall buildings
They praised him high for all his winnings
Their lives had drained into his laughter
His graves are foolish for his collection

And there is no miracle to get out of this one

On their graves lies their discretion
Their souls are chained and lost direction
He collects their bones with good intention
And he lives on without detection

And he trusts a miracle
will get him out of this one

He'll dig your grave if it makes a difference....

About this poem

I wrote this minutes after a confrontation with a psychopath, then turned it into a song for a Crime film I later shot.

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Written on November 18, 2015

Submitted by jswolfe on January 30, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXABA X XCXCB D EECD D DDDD XD A
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 925
Words 179
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 5, 1, 5, 1, 4, 1, 4, 2, 1

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