Una Lived



Una lived on the southside of Oola,

Where she turned from a girl who loved gúnaí,

To an adolescent who was feared like Adolf in the forties but in the twenty-first century,



She got laid off from her own investment plan,

Deeply depressed,

Became addicted to anti-depressants,

had to get restricted,

before getting convicted,



drinking liquid like its thick mud,

even though it's just hard liquor,

in order to cope with acceptance,

of her corrections and own duds,



switched to cocaine instead,

It was a bigger kicker to the battle,

whom she stood with,

till she abstained, but it caused more pain,



the pressure,

was a constant refresher,

of her misconduct,

which led to the ending of her enraged

Downward spiral fall of a life,



couldn't take it no more,

She ran for miles,

miles and miles

no files or smiles



The dispense of emotion hit,

until met with two choices,

only one to be chosen,

hearing voices,



She turned to see the devil,

telling her she isn't special,

She's only a pebble.

That area isn't level,



that there's one way out of her trouble,

and that's to end the light at the tunnel's finish line,

puzzled but not confused,

She thought about it more and more.



till the clock struck one,

She sat down. She thought it was the end.

calling up her mother and brothers,

Saying goodbye,

One last time,



lost in time,

Ulla came into the devil's grasp,

death grabbed her,

and rolled her up like some grass,



all since,

The TV licence wasn't paid,

Rest assured,

This is an issue.

get rid of this blasphemy.

and out with the real devils,

up top.

About this poem

This poem is about how something as little like not paying the TV licence can ruin someone's life.

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Written on October 27, 2023

Submitted by nathanmadden423 on October 28, 2023

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Scheme A X B X X C C C D X X X A X X D X X X E F F F X X G A A A A A X X E G X X H H X D X X X B X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
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Words 401
Stanzas 46
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