Analysis of Hope's Ending



sitting at a coffee shop, it's raining outside.
watching all the pretty people as they go passing by.
black umbrellas all around
black trench coats too.
a red umbrella in the crowd
 and underneath it, you.
your eyes are the only eyes i've seen all day
that are not dull and glazed
like nothing is behind them,
like nothing is inside them.
like they're souls have fled...
all you hollow people, go running to you steeple.
your million-dollar box, your refuge from the storm.
you pray about your favorite cars,
you pray to wishing wells and stars.
you pray about all the clothes you've worn...
sitting at a stoplight, it's still raining outside.
watching all the little sheep as they go bleating by.
then something catches out of the corner of my eye.
i can't take it any longer, and i start to cry.
it's you there admist the crowd.
underneath a black umbrella too.
 i'd hoped i wasn't the only one left
oh....how i held all my hope in you...
your eyes dull and glazed like nothing is inside them,
like nothing is behind them.
like your soul has fled.
 "This is the way the world ends
this is the way the world ends
this is the way the world ends
not with a bang, but a whimper."


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Characters 1,179
Words 244
Sentences 22
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 31
Lines Amount 31
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Letters per stanza (avg) 904
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About this poem

The last five lines are a quote from one of T. S. Elliots works called "Hollow Men." Written when I was a teen, it holds some truth still...

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Written on January 03, 2002

Submitted by motherhoodpoptart737 on August 06, 2023

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Jennifer Marie' Brigman

I am from a small mountian town is southern Appalachia. I am currently a broke mother, so I really hope something comes from this. I spend most of my time stressing, caring for two small children, sometime as if I were a hamster on a wheel. Thats more honest than I should be, but, it is me at this moment. more…

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