If This, Then That. SUCH IS OUR WORLD
julie leyraud 1960 (USA)
In the beginning it begun
People, plants, animals, moon, water, sun
Each fixed in place with space and time
Governed with innate orders from Divine
The game now setup and pieces in play
Our spectator watch's, smiles, weeps from day to day
As we the people abuse the innate order
Crossing and mingling the natural border
If we mix this, then we get that
As though we can pull a rabbit from a hat
We have choice to bounce like a ball
From top to bottom, wall to wall
All within a fixed place in our universe
As we steal, kill, bump, run
over people, plants, animals
moon, water, sun
The spectator blamed from the end to the beginning
All bases loaded we enter the final inning
A game created with regulations and rules
Once played wisely now played by mere fools
We the pawns and they the hand
Who watch over and govern the land
Now the time to assume your role
Set your heart on the goal
Return to each it's fixed space and time
Each to move within the order of the divine
Should we not regress to the board that was set
We will reap our world with sorrowful regret
Our spectator waits while no one calls time out
Players race on, fight, riot and shout
In the end who of the game will win
He that is with remorse repenting of sin
For if we walk by faith and not by sight
Then that whichi s won is THE FIGHT!
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Submitted by Juliea777 on July 03, 2016
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AA BC DD EE FF GGX AXA HH II JJ KK BC LL MM NN OO |
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Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 1,275 |
Words | 255 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2 |
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