Desperate



Happiness is felt from their mouths
Don't seem to see the problem
Was told work hard to earn it
I did forgetting my unemployed sister
The desire to live like Arianna is high
Degrees I have but doesn't matter anymore

The culture judges me by my doing
Should have seen it from afar
Didn't go wrong since hardwork pays
At street I stand waiting for a sinner
The money given will be my dinner
His wife judges yet employed his lazy sister

Don't judge me by my doing
The wealth took all the rating
My father died fighting the colonialists
And I die of separation from the culture

About this poem

It's about the life of poor lady in africa

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Written on October 29, 2022

Submitted by vivianatieno227 on October 29, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXXAXX BXXAAA BBXA
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 577
Words 112
Stanzas 3
Stanza Lengths 6, 6, 4

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