Don't ask what you do not want to know



Questions revel truth that should be left unknown
Fear runs in circles; death is certain
Life is not
A search for the light; turns into a fight for life

What is life? What is the truth?
How can we appreciate life without
Feeling the hot breath of darkness
Constantly on our backs

Keeping us down
Who made us and put us here
Can free our hearts, our minds
Yet; ;where do we search?
Where do we find this being or beings

Why search; when they have always been inside?

We should focus on our commonalities
Instead of our differences
LIfe is fast in perspective
Looking back we can be more objective
Looking forward we  think more of death

Try to find what was always there
I look and I look
And I find is tears, Pain & destruction

Death is priceless; Just as life
You can not have one without the other
Free me, Kill my heart
I desire nothing in life
I only want peace in death
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Submitted by jerseymaxey on February 26, 2021

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Scheme XAXB XXXX XXXXX X XXCCD XXA BXXBD
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 857
Words 168
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 5, 1, 5, 3, 5

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