System defiant



Poem

     SYSTEM  DEFIANT

                                 K.R.BALAKRISHNAN

I bemoan my own poverty
Of ignorance
On intricate internet matters.

Today when I asked it
To go to the hell
It went into the heaven.

When I clicked on the mouse
To take something  forward
It guided it backward
Oh ! Unskilled fingers .

So I folded my own body into four
To become a computer frame
And put some thorns around
But alas! It could not hold anything in.

I bemoan my own poverty
Of ignorance
On intricate internet matters ;

Oh ! I am flabbergasted.
This system is like my child.

Realising my poverty
I opted to be a poet.
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Submitted on May 09, 2015

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 604
Words 107
Stanzas 8
Stanza Lengths 1, 3, 3, 4, 4, 3, 2, 3

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