Analysis of Wanting To Get



One's wanting to get,
Anything one wishes.
Seldom sits to stay satisfied.
It is the hunting in us all.
To stalk until whatever is conquered.
Then off we go,
Seeking something better wished.
With less patience in the hunting of it.
And then it scrutinized,
For what it isn't.
Becoming disappointed and accusative.
Done to claim on others.
To be the fault and blame.
Because of a wish we had,
Thought not good enough to get...
And it to have.
Someone else took it,
Away and fast.
Knowing for them its value to keep kept,
Forever protect and treasured.

'That had been mine.
I wanted it back.'

'You threw it away and called it trash.
And as the old saying goes,
One's treasure is another man's to have...
For the rest of his life!'

'You are wrong about that.
I remember that old saying,
Going heard to hear like this...
One man's trash,
To know it for what it is.
Is another man's burden.
Looking for a way to get rid of it!'

'Then why would you want,
A burden back to have that bad?
It must be missed.
To make me believe,
What I now have is worthless.
But nothing anyone wishes to get,
And blessed to have?
Done to then call trash?
Didn't know what had.
Until someone else...
Prayed and wished to be blessed to get,
A treasure to value...
What someone else,
Thought worthless.
And...
Not good enough to impress,
Others who could care less.
What to value to treasure,
If it had been easy to receive.
They were not blessed to identify,
The meaning of what a blessing is.
And you know what?'

'When you wish for anything?
Wish to want for yourself.
The doing it for the reason and purpose,
To impress someone else?
Will never leave you satisfied to value,
Nothing at all.'

'Oh yeah?
How do you know that?'

'I stopped seeking,
Approval and acceptance.
To begin to value my worth.
And to treasure every blessing I get!'

'I'm not religious!'

'I believe there is a God.
But I am not religious.'

'Well...
Whatever road you travel on?
You're going to be looking a long time,
For your destination,
To identify where you're going.
And what it is your trying to find!'

'That makes no sense at all.'

'Whether it does or not.
Your trash to have had,
Is now my treasure to value.
Kept to keep.
Belonging to me and yours to lose.
May your journey,
Be adventurous and a learning process.
Fools rush in,
Where wisemen fear to tread.'

'Nothing.
You know...
Once I divorced,
Being married to my own ignorance?
It soon did not take me long at all,
To discover and appreciate,
The taste to crave living life.
My life.
With nothing to take for granted?
I became happier than ever.
And didn't have a pot to piss in!'

'Most people I know use toilets!'

'Exactly!
Let truth be told.'


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (32%)
Etheree  (24%)
Metre 11011 10110 1011110 11010011 110110110 1111 1010101 1110001011 01110 11110 01001000100 111110 110101 0110111 1110111 0111 1111 0101 1011110111 01001010 1111 11011 111010111 0101101 1101010111 101111 111011 10101110 1011111 111 1111111 1010110 1010111111 11111 01011111 1111 11101 1111110 110101011 0111 11111 10111 0111 10111111 010110 111 110 0 1101101 101111 1110110 111110101 10111010 010110101 0111 111110 111101 01011010010 10111 1101110110 1011 11 11111 1110 0100010 10111011 01101001011 11010 1011101 1111010 1 1011101 1101110011 11010 10101110 011111011 111111 101111 11111 11110110 111 010110111 1110 1010000101 110 11111 10 11 1101 1010111100 111111111 10100010 0111101 11 11011110 101100110 010101110 11011110 010 1111
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 2,708
Words 621
Sentences 76
Stanzas 16
Stanza Lengths 20, 2, 4, 7, 22, 6, 2, 4, 1, 2, 6, 1, 9, 11, 1, 2
Lines Amount 100
Letters per line (avg) 20
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 125
Words per stanza (avg) 31
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Submitted by lpahtillah on January 18, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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