The World



The world to the sky grows darker yet
It has no light and soon it will all be night
The agonizing screams pierce the forest
The future is formidable and it is all set
The trees wave the incoming warning
The wind shrieks with all their might
For being enemies and no longer guests
Everything is gone and everything roaring
The shadows that creep over the walls
The children hide with all their fright
No one can be to sure, or knows best
Now the world is crumbling, everything falls
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Submitted on April 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCADBEDFBGF
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 470
Words 90
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 12

Syrelia

I believe that there is a time for everything and some things can be expressed through poetry I come from a different family and things are different everywhere. I believe poems can be gateways into the mind, what we cannot say but wish to say it anyway so badly and so words change but the meaning will forever stay the same.I write as my hands allow me, word after word. Ink following the shadows of my paper begging me silently to write more.These are my poems. more…

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