Analysis of Craving



Craving the taste,
To appetize and defend...
An addiction to feed,
Upon delicious fiction.
Is and has been an expensive delusion.
That fools made to feast this habit,
Refuse to believe will never be defeated.

Sickened have been the minds,
Dining to wine from time to time...
On delusions they can and will,
See the reality of truth...
Retreat and defeated.
Until from the table,
It is nolonger introduced.
Continue to expect,
Their portrayal to display power...
Will never lose its effectiveness.

Since fed to witness,
In movies and on their TV screens...
A replication they can take and create,
Depictions related to a way of life...
That has nothing to do,
With what is true.
So many isolated have yet to face.
Regardless of the weapons they choose.
In their mindless attempts,
To erase truth and its value.

And here we are today.
Living in the midst of fear and threats.
Yet...
Not from foreign terrorists to suspect.
But ourselves.
Dressed in camouflage.
Doing what we know best.
Creating conflicts and division.
And a hopeful diminishing of diversity.
That those fed to feed on ignorance,
Seem only capable to digest!

Defending fiction.
Popularized to feed upon.
Craving more of it to digest.
Has become an expensive delusion.
Only fools refuse to believe and accept,
Defeats the truth and reality of it.

And yet...
With a consciousness
Blind and distorted.
By fear and threats of death.
Not from foreign terrorists.
But on their own land.
And in hometowns.
With a testing to taste,
Just how far their craving takes...
For a destruction that elimates,
The quality and way of life.
They nolonger appreciate.
Or can tolerate.
Its diversity to value.
For what it had been for them.
Before fiction they allowed to devour!

'You know...
I can't get enough of this funky stuff.
You should try it.'

'I have.
And it made me sick of it.'

'Well...
Some of us were not born to digest,
The best that life has to offer.'

'You've got to be out of your mind!'

'Ssshhh.
Hush up with that.
Lower your voice.
You may want that kind of attention.
I don't!


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Poetic Form
Metre 1001 11001 101011 0101010 10111010010 11111110 011011101010 101101 10111111 10101101 101011 010010 011010 11101 010101 101010110 110110100 11110 010011111 0010111001 01001010111 111011 1111 1101001111 010101011 011001 10110110 011101 100011101 1 1110100101 1001 1010 101111 010010010 0010010010100 111111100 110100101 01010 1001101 10111101 1011010010 10101101001 010101011 01 10100 10010 110111 1110100 11111 001 101011 1111101 1001011 01000111 11010 1110 10100110 1111111 01101011010 11 1110111101 1111 11 0111111 1 111011101 01111110 11111111 1 1111 1011 111111010 11
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,968
Words 361
Sentences 57
Stanzas 11
Stanza Lengths 7, 10, 10, 11, 6, 16, 3, 2, 3, 1, 5
Lines Amount 74
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 143
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted by lpahtillah on August 15, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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