through the foggy window

Carlos Jorge Tapadinhas 1971 (Vila Verde de Ficalho)



I live in a prison with bars of Time
where I spend my days waiting
by others, so many, who bequeath without leaving
behind you, the marks of a breath

I live in a prison full of people
silent people, mouth to murmur
prayers, prayers, always begging
for another day, without dreaming ahead

They don't know that sometimes souls break
not at the end, when they wait for the end
but in the middle, right before they wake up?

So they lie on top of everything they didn't have!
The nothingness of the reason why they existed
They leave... as if they were never here!

About this poem

observing the lives of people who behave like ants busy with their day-to-day jobs waiting impatiently to be old with the right to the pension for which they fought so hard...

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Written on October 05, 2022

Submitted by carlosj.80683 on December 21, 2022

Modified on March 31, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAAX XXAX XXX XXX
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 562
Words 110
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 3, 3

Carlos Jorge Tapadinhas

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