Time
TIME
Times are passing
Ferrying along my fellow travellers,
Speeding like the South-East
Trade wind.
My hope fails me
Livid with the desire
To plunge into this wave of time
Desiring, with my aching sinews
To out-wit them
To beat my co-travellers
To the peak of the time.
Within these perimeters of hope
I desire to rise
To run
To occupy
To conquer
To subdue
To sit side-by-side
With the icons at the top
Perchance
Time will permit me
To shake hands
With my adorned heroes.
About this poem
The first published in 1986 is a narrative about how time flies leaving some behind in the existential struggle of the adolescents growing up.
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Written on March 23, 1976
Submitted by ajuameh on May 26, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | AXBXX CDABXBA XXXXDXXX XCXX |
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 502 |
Words | 112 |
Stanzas | 4 |
Stanza Lengths | 5, 7, 8, 4 |
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