On The Way Back Home



Some desire,
Driven by urge.

Borns at the earliest morning.
It is the right time
To sow the hope seedlings,
And recite the hopeful rhyme.

After struggling a lot,
Putting my entire effort,
I try to become 'successful'.
But Joining in the race to be a 'material fool'.

The race gave me a bunch of gifts—
Like hopelessness and guillotine sharp cliffs.
The race left a thirsty tired mind,
Obliged to run forward leaving the soul behind.

"Didn't the race give you success?"
Asks the people to me.
I reply trying to remove that thorn hats,
'It gives a life imprisonment in the jail of money.'

But they don't agree and starts their run.
Just like earlier me who thought it would be a fun.

Now I am on the sea shore,
Trying to go my heart's core.
To discover "who really am I?"
Saying that 'race'  "good bye!'

Now I need a cool tree shadow,
For my heat sick soul.
Now opening all my heart's window,
Is my last goal.

About this poem

It is a poem that discourages to rush out for money in a rat race. Clearly money is one of the most important part of life. But is not the entire life. This poem finds a way to escape from that rat race of tendency to income more and more money.

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Written on September 03, 2022

Submitted by soumyadip.sardar2019 on September 03, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XX XAXA XXXX XXBB XCXC DD EEFF GHGH
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 917
Words 204
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 4, 4

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