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Left and Right

Izaan Shaik 2009

You need this?
I want something else.
It's all turned over and unacceptable.
Yet we are expected to work to live.

Why can we not be all?
All hungry, all full.
All in need, all giving.

Yet it's been bricked. We depend on it.
What about the ants?
What about the animals?
We are different, and all messed up.
It helps us live, it kills us.

What am I? What should we change?

About this poem

Even to live, we need money. No amount of money can be put on a life. Yet we do that every day.

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Submitted by izaan on October 20, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXX XXX XXXXX X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 373
Words 88
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 3, 5, 1
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Izaan Shaik

Izaan Shaik is a wise man, with the hopes that without his knowledge, he has changed a life. He does not care to be known, rather, he wants to be known for his wise, yet anonymous work. more…

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