Money To Be Won



The race is on, as it always is,
at the sound of alarm, a quick burst
of first at the start.

Moving to the middle, stuck in
the pack, he is giving it his
all-out, panting, sweating,

blinkered to all distractions.
The competition is fierce,
as he moves to the outside,

leaving others behind. Now is
not the time to rein in, to pullback,
for now is the time to run even faster.

For forty years the corporate bit
has dug deep into his soul
with few unbridled moments of joy.

One day, he dreams, he will live
the pastoral life on a golf course,
on a beach, without an alarm.

But this is not yet that day,
for now is the time to run
for there is money to be won.
 

About this poem

The horserace as a metaphor for spending one's entire life working to acquire money seems to be apt.

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Written on May 01, 2022

Submitted by tgmolitor on August 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AXX XAX XXX AXX XXX XXX XBB
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 671
Words 152
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3

Thomas Molitor

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    Wordplay supports the overall metaphor and them of the poem without being intrusive.
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