Glass Half-Full
Or Half-Empty, a poem
Filling the glass is a lesson in futility.
I pour from the bottle, I drink from the glass,
and neither stays very full or very empty for long.
Yet I continue to fill the glass and drain it.
Fill the glass and drain it.
Fill the glass and drain it.
Neither stays very full
or very empty for long.
I fill the glass and drain it.
I sit and am still.
Except for the steady
drain and fill.
Drain and fill.
A lesson in futility.
I watch a wall,
the paint bubbles.
I pour from the bottle,
I drink from the glass.
I drain the glass and fill it.
Even though it never stays
very full or very empty
for long.
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Your writing was so effortless, my takeaway was so many metaphors. Good job!
I love that you use alliteration to build rhythm and that the half full/half empty part of it comes to a nice full on smack on the cheek to wake up at the end. This was very well done
Very nicely done.