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Ignorance is bliss

Charis Redmond

Blindness to the lies
Ignorance to the truth
Always a part of us now dies
Here now we have lost our youth

See the burning light
Feel the warmth of rage
Watch the fire in the dead of night
That flame doesn't die with age
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Submitted by Charis_Redmond on February 08, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABAB CDCD
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 212
Words 45
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 4, 4
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