St. Martin’s Summer: The Final Cut
In the air a strange feeling lingers
It cries out, quick and silent
Danger – death’s closest friend
All eyes on you
But no one truly sees
When it comes down to a button
And a man full of fear
Senseless hatred, captured in the toys of men
The inherited policy which convinces misinformed children
That power is pain
And pain the only weapon
All with the power to see all
But understand so little
The power to use words to cover us – to hide
Suddenly,
burning like the lost love of a hardened heart
Lost in words none will ever hear
The final cut
And like a sun projecting no light, emitting no heat
A lonely eye looks down on it’s creation
Day by day, year by year
Lonely tears fall on battered Earth.
About this poem
…When it comes down to a button And a man full of fear…
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Written on April 20, 1990
Submitted on April 22, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | XXX XXAB XAXA XXX XXXX XA BX |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 719 |
Words | 147 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 2, 2 |
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