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Nihilism

Harseerat Multani 2006 (Punjab)

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Live on whims.

swim to swim.

Meaning is a shackle. 

The key is your sin.



Power is a delusion.

Paper erodes.

You write a Constitution,

it cannot hold.



The bludgeon you strike-

only dents a dune-

of a desert which gulps your strife

as a boon.



Mortal is a flower;

in love he blooms.

He shrivels with age.

By void: consumed

About this poem

This poem describes the bliss of the belief in nothing, the insignificance of meticulous thought and the utter beauty in knowing death's certainty which makes life glow brighter.

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Submitted by Hopesprings2828 on January 14, 2023

Modified on April 08, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X X X X A A X X B X B X X X X
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 341
Words 94
Stanzas 15
Stanza Lengths 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1
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