a lie, which hides in a glass jar
Maiju Hyvärinen 2000 (Oulu)
I don’t think there is God on this Earth, but the devil seems very real.
Maybe it is in the nature of us humans,
A type of biological evil.
Maybe after all, there is no kindness in anyone.
Somehow we are all imposters.
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Written on 2022
Submitted by maiju_h on March 12, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic hexameter |
Characters | 220 |
Words | 47 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 5 |
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