If Others Only Knew
A Poem Including Some Lines from Classic English Writers
An agreement made before our boon
We learn the end before the rules
We’re reminded how we’ll be there soon
And left to fight with inadequate tools
We all wish for a clean slate
There are few days of youth, free from dismay
“Which brings impending fate”
History seems to have known the world would turn out this way
As time goes on, it is purpose we seek
“Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance”
But as we accept the damnation we’ll meet
The obsession becomes focused on simply a chance
The persistence of sanity becomes the haste
While the masses cloud their judgement with illusion of change
“When old age shall this generation waste”
It’s only our minds that derange
Can there honestly be any pride in the production
To all those who mumble and drag on with a limper
If in our hearts we’re always expected the destruction
“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but with a whimper”
I have a fearful thought, that we’re no longer realists
And in our search for stamps and gold stars, we’ve become a bore
Perhaps all that is left in us terrified idealists
And a silent weep is a pitiful reward, for the breathtaking clairvoyance, we now ignore.
Bibliography
Barbauld A.L. “The Mouse’s Petition.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, 9th ed, W.W Norton & Company, 2012, pp. 40-41.
Eliot, T.S. “The Hollow Men.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, 9th ed, W.W Norton & Company, 2012, pp. 2543-2546.
Keats, J. “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, 9th ed, W.W Norton & Company, 2012, pp. 930-932.
Keats, J. “When I have fears that I may cease to be.” The Norton Anthology of English Literature, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, 9th ed, W.W Norton & Company, 2012, pp. 911.
About the Creator
Sickboy Lecuyer
"Alone" by Edgar Allan Poe paints a fairly clear picture.
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