Here Heard Today



Here heard today,
To comprehend with attention given.
As years to pass decades later.
About that which is understood to understand.
Yet leaving many to still ask,
Why would a people...
Watch to witness their own quality of life,
Wither away to rot and decay.
To stay that way to accept.
While together will come to object in protest,
Against others doing their best to make...
A place they all live safer to respect and live.
But...
Blame is placed on them to claim,
They are only doing this for attention to get.
Without approval given,
From the very ones heard to hear say...
Attempts are being openly made,
To replace the faces of a race...
Caring more of an image of greatness,
Fictioned to delude.
Than the truth of all races participating,
To make 'that' reality what it is.
Before allowed to decay and fade away,
To satisfy a creation of lies...
Centuries and decades to deceive beliefs.
Even today,
Descendants of destruction...
Believe peace to achieve it takes,
Division, conflict.
And wars to begin and start somewhere...
Proves blood to shed and pain to share,
Earns peace and heros to make.
Temporarily.
Until it becomes decided,
A new weapon to use is more efficient...
To eliminate who or whomever,
Seen portraying to be a feeling human being...
Successfully.
With a doing to dare to display empathy,
Publicly without embarrassment.
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Written on April 22, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on April 22, 2023

Modified on April 24, 2023

1:21 min read
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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABCDEFGAHIJKLMNBAOPQRSTAUVABWXYYJZ1 2 CSZZ2
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,347
Words 271
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 41

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