Analysis of Uninvited Stress



Without hint or clue.
Without warning it comes.
As if a long lost friend,
Hoping to find you.
And there you are in full clear view.
Waving unknowing,
What you've done to yourself to do.
Just seconds away,
From giving up to abandon...
Years it took to gain your peace of mind.

Uninvited stress.
Is not immediately address,
To see it for what it is.
No.
It only takes one feeling protected and safe.
Living a right way to live one's life.
Without needing to take pills to eliminate,
Body pains and headaches.
Suspected to come,
From those that do not disappoint.

But how many of us remain to pay attention?
Or remember how long it took,
To achieve the receiving of peace of mind.
Leaving the addiction of B.S. behind?
We believe we become,
Immune to nonsense.
Ignorance and its stupidity.
Forgetting how clever,
Pretensions kept can be.
Especially the premeditated practiced ones.

Say and do nothing.
When stress like this,
Gallops towards you on its high horse.
Turn immediately around.
Know troublemakers for what they are.
Seeking for themselves attention to get.
And at the expense,
Of someone willing to exchange...
Their common sense and mental health,
For repeated doctor visits.
To claim being able to reminisce,
Having a peace of mind to believe permanent.

The only thing that remains permanent,
Is one's willingness to accept ongoing B.S.

'What about death and taxes?'

What about,
Identifying to recognize...
Stress keepers,
Wishing to dump their troubles...
On others to pretend them to be close friends.


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Poetic Form Tetractys  (20%)
Metre 01111 011011 110111 10111 01110111 10010 11110111 11001 11011010 111111111 0101 11010001 1111111 1 110111001001 100111111 01101111010 10101 01011 1111101 1110110111010 10101111 10100101111 1000101101 101101 01110 100010100 010110 010111 01000100101 10110 1111 10111111 10100001 11001111 1010101011 01001 1110101 11010101 10101010 111010101 100111101100 0101101100 11100101101 1011010 101 0100110 110 1011110 11010111111
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,519
Words 313
Sentences 37
Stanzas 7
Stanza Lengths 10, 10, 10, 12, 2, 1, 5
Lines Amount 50
Letters per line (avg) 24
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 170
Words per stanza (avg) 37
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Written on August 29, 2022

Submitted by lpahtillah on August 29, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:34 min read
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