Love & War
Truth forgotten
Hope is lost
Relinquished to dusk
Lost to time
Forgotten memories
Lost dreams
Friends released
To eternal sleep
Sleep comes
Happiness leaves
Unbroken become broken
Truth becomes lie
Memory forsaken
For none to find
Harmony murdered
For all to see
Peace interrupted
Within oneself
War is waged
Forever more
War is forever
Within oneself
Neither losing
Nor winning
Lost to indecision
The heart falls
The mind falters
Truth snaps
Sanity breaks
Trust deluded
By the iron gaze
All eternity
War is fought
But with whom is it fought
Not with the enemy
But with oneself
Lost to uncertainty
Light shall die
Losing creation forever more
Darkness shrouds
Darkness destroys
Darkness envelops
Shall light create?
With help of love
Shall darkness destroy?
With help of fear
Neither wins
The scale is balanced
Both equal in power
Until the scale
Shall be tipped
War continues
To the death.
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Submitted on April 10, 2014
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic dimeter |
Characters | 890 |
Words | 148 |
Stanzas | 16 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4, 4, 2, 2, 4, 4, 3, 5, 3, 3, 2, 2, 3, 4 |
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