Vanity
At the beginning of the journey, you are not exposed to the futility.
As if it is meaningful, you cry with all might at the nursery.
Then schooling is compulsory, the rhymes must be sung at the nursery.
If you are progressing you have to move on, school also includes the primary.
Then came the teenage wry, but you have to be in secondary.
Education seems to be for eternity, they say this one is university.
Searching for job isn't easy, but you have to assume responsibility.
Don't you think it is slavery? They say labour has got dignity.
Wake, work, sleep have come rhythmically.
Blink your eyes you're sixty.
Neighbours want their privacy, children want their liberty!
It has dawned you are alone, it’s another name, you are lonely!
Soon the cemetery will call, then you won’t know that it has been a journey in futility!
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Submitted on May 01, 2011
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Scheme | AAAAAAAAAAAAA |
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Closest metre | Iambic octameter |
Characters | 819 |
Words | 147 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 13 |
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