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Enter The Sword

Mark Christopher

Free verse
So you think you have won

Launch a barrage of vicious lies
to plague a vulnerable heart
and innocent mind

Behold within contaminated rivers
flows pristine waters

Pivot a man's enduring friend
into a newfangled enemy

Amongst storm seeped skies
I captured rays of sunlight

Devour someone's aspirations
diminish their hope

Underneath the rust
glitters untarnished gold

Owning the TRUTH
I perceive these things

Your greatest fear has arrived

Enter the sword

Decimate the body
the spirit remains untainted

Lost in a maze of deception
truth guides me to an exit

In the midst of a gruesome nightmare
I envision a peaceful dream

Armed with my blade
I am prepared to strike

About this poem

The truth in this poem is used metaphorically as a sword that has the power to cut down the manipulative and deceptive they live in fear of the day they will be confronted with the undeniable truth from which they cannot lie and manipulate there way out of it

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Submitted by markl.65734 on February 05, 2023

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme A BXX CC XD BX XX XX XX X X DX AX XX XX
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 679
Words 127
Stanzas 14
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2
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