Is it left or is it right?



Is it left or is it right
 Both of them just seem so right
Both of them I feel drawn to
Both I know that I can do

It's so hard for me to choose
I am so afraid to lose
For each action has a price
So I'm trying to be wise

What compounds the issue more
Are the ones that I adore
Telling me I can't do either
And should stop and take a breather

How can I explain to them
The kind of person that I am
When in truth with all I know
There is nothing I can show

What I sense, what I perceive
Isn't what most people see
No amount of explanation
Can relieve this situation

So I sit and mediate
Knowing that for now I wait
Asking only that the light
Show me if it's left or right.
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Submitted on August 27, 2014

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AABB CCXX DDEE XXFF XXGG HHAA
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 646
Words 145
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Allen Vaysberg

Allen Vaysberg is a best-selling author of "Inspirer, Poetic Observations" which has 100 of his more than 250 poetic works. Allen has been writing poetry (he has a variety of styles but all follow rhyme) since age 7. He is fluent in Russian and English and writes in both. more…

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