Nothingness



As fallen ash through the hands of gods

We look to our lands and see as they today are disgraced by our name
That in our pointless existence of fulfilling nothing
They both now bare our shame
The pain of being raped and misused
We are man with hands that only abuse
We have smothered heaven
And mother earth now holds the name hell
In our progression
That which stood around us held the fate of that which fell
We created the cell, which bestowed our own demise
The beast, which grew and multiplied
Survived by our mortal lies
Flesh was once a gift
Now it seems more of a curse
When our homes and creators
Now lay wounded by our pointless course
We are the hands of man
Which contain only the breath of destruction
Allow us to enter
And all that once stood true will now stand for nothing
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Submitted by JokerGem on November 18, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme X ABAXXCDCDEXEXXXXXCXB
Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 789
Words 152
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 1, 20

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