Hourglass of Life
The hourglass of life glistens...
Trapped,
days of sand will continuously slip away.
To the dismay of all,
they will not stay in place.
Between each grain resides particulates of hope,
unable to escape the ampoules,
the sense of home.
Force is inevitable if the glass is not malleable,
the consistency unbreakable,
as is the will of life.
However...
it is the decision of an outer,
unbeknownst factor
whether to turn the hourglass around
and capture - time.
About this poem
A poem about time.
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Written on August 27, 2022
Submitted by austinlryan234 on December 03, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 463 |
Words | 96 |
Stanzas | 6 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5 |
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