Captivity
There was once a captive giraffe,
Who escaped from the city zoo,
But with this newly found freedom,
He wasn’t quite sure what to do.
Bustle overwhelms his senses,
‘Till he finally finds some lawn,
But the trees were scarce and fragile,
With dried leaves barely hanging on.
Flooded with options and self doubt,
he lets out some ironic laughs,
Returns back to the same old zoo,
Back with all the other giraffes.
About this poem
This poem is about the discomfort that can be associated with freedom.
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Submitted by FallingAwake on November 08, 2023
Modified by FallingAwake on November 08, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 440 |
Words | 86 |
Stanzas | 3 |
Stanza Lengths | 4, 4, 4 |
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