Living Thoughts of the Dead



Dead men, dead men
What do you see?
Peering up to the world of the living
Seeing the clouds drift and birds fly
But by and by you're eaten by things that are alive.
If you could would you sigh?
And when no one visits do you cry?
Do you get so sad you want to die?
Would you chuckle as you realize;
You're already dead.
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Submitted on February 03, 2013

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Scheme ABCDEDDDFG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 309
Words 66
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 10

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