First And Only



Where are the people to find.
Not out of their minds.
And found to be trusted.
Not corrupted.

Where are those friendships to find.
Remaining that way to stay all the time.
And felt to feel them honest.
Not secretly demonic.

Too many seek ways to impress.
With their pretensions to address.
First and only.
Knowing the doing of it is phoney.
Yet socially etiquette to display properly.

With a satisfying expectations.
First and only.
Without need for explanations.
Knowing only kept to fake.
To keep a maintain social status.

But tell me where,
Are the people to find...
With awareness of their consciousness.
And not yet,
Out of their minds...
Lost.
In the satisfying expectations,
At any cost.
And tell me where,
Are true friendships found.
Above...
And not,
Buried in the ground.
Reminisced them missed to visit!
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Written on May 20, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on May 20, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme abcc axxx ddEee fEfxg hagxbxfxhixxix
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 818
Words 174
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5, 5, 14

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