Who's Counting



Born with a cry we enter this stage
a blank page,
scriptless and perfect as light
With a wrinkled gray sponge,
actions are absorbed
forming, shaping the future
with the unseen

Each path taken reveals
threads of changing color
And we choose the thread of our weave

Advancing thru choice
to a pattern more defined
never knowing,
Who's Counting.
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Submitted on August 14, 2012

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme AAXXXBX XBX XXCC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 329
Words 59
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 7, 3, 4

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