-Too Many.
Percy Shelley 1968 (Mogadishu)
"Too many fall from great and good
For you to doubt the likelihood."
-(fro) Robert Frost's
(poem) "Provide, Provide."
Too many have come and gone--
Too many sought and thought--
For you to have lost or won;
Too many try to climb up their dreams
in light,
If only too fast they are washed
ashore--
Or left out to be 'acquinted with the
night,'
With no second chance, beaten to the
core;
And too many have put their love with
trust
In brute, brute another's heart,
In the end with no love but driven to
dust;
Why, too many fail to give another
Try, impatient to treat
with hate
The very lover with
whom they felt
together,
Hence with no heart,
and for nothing in
hope to wait.
-by Hakim H. Kassim
(d. June 06, 2023)
-NOTE: the quatation in Line 6 ("acquinted with the night") comes from Robert Frost's (poem) "One Acquinted with the Night" (1928).
About this poem
-The poet addresses ironies and contradictions that nonetheless are fundamental to human existence on pmanet-earth.
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Written on June 06, 2023
Submitted by hakimk.71556 on December 23, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,063 |
Words | 173 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 27, 1 |
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