Shades of gray
Our people are still searching for better days.
But first our motives and values have got to change
Our headstones have been engraved, and we were slaves.
With enough burden to push us to early graves.
But instead we stayed.
What a powerful statement has been made.
Through time, riots and tyraids, we were slayed.
Still today through life we pass with remarkable grades.
Thus, im amazed.
This passion in my heart has been set ablaze.
So on this pad, i let my pen graze.
Moving through modern times dizzy confused, dazed.
Soon the last symphany will be played.
Too many lives are being lived in dismay.
Fraudulantly being put on display.
Painstaking to watch as life is lived this way.
A world in shades of gray.
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Submitted on May 25, 2013
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 696 |
| Words | 127 |
| Stanzas | 1 |
| Stanza Lengths | 17 |
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