Nothing was Hidden

Richard Groff 1957 (Pottstown, Pa.)



The young men push the old aside
To rush to their destruction
To conquer towns and villages
And give them their instructions

They didn’t see the stop signs
As they rolled into the village
And so, they raped the women
And the houses all were pillaged

They dragged the loot outside the town
And sat down to divide it
The young girls and the women too
Their lust, they didn’t hide it

They carried off the precious things
The old men had acquired
They took their wives and children too
And all that they desired

The LORD looked down from heaven
Pondered all the young men’s deeds
The chaos and confusion caused
And so, he made them bleed!

And all the birds of the air gorged themselves on their flesh!
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Written on February 12, 2022

Submitted by dawg4jesus on March 17, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XAXX XXAX XBCB XDCD AXXX X
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 708
Words 136
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 1

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