Two paths
Faeeda 2007 (Cape town)
When i close my eyes
I see two paths
My life could take
In a span of 8 years
In the first
Im alone
Walking down a street
Of thugs
Im inlove with a drug addict
I work from Mondays to Sundays
While he openly
Gawks at plenty of females
Im a smoker in this one
And I've failed my grades
I work at a garage
And i have no friends
All the fake
Showed their true colours
And all the real
Left when they realised i wasnt worth it
In the second path
Im married
To a man who treats me right
To a man who thinks of me as bright as the starlight
He buys me chocolates
On a Tuesday morning
And brings me roses
On a friday afternoon
Most of my friends have left
By this time
They couldn't appreciate me the way i deserved
So i was confident enough to cut them off
And the ones who stayed
When i needed them the most
Took care of me
As i took care of them when they needed me
I dont know which path
I will take
Or whether itll be good
Or bad
But i hope i find the happiness
That ive craved for
Whenever,
And wherever i end up in
About this poem
This poem is about two different paths my life could take.
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Written on November 10, 2023
Submitted by mosesfaeeda on November 10, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,026 |
Words | 230 |
Stanzas | 11 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 |
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