Analysis of Justifiably Spiritually Limited



Restricted to fiction,
An existence to create...
A false religious base.
To keep many enforced to support,
And kept faithfully worshipping...
In things to believe brings to them happiness.
Satisfaction, fulfillment and unending joy.
Displayed justifiably in limited understanding.
As to what it is they pray to and for?

Then...
When a natural created occurrence nears.
Threatening to happen.
And warned coming closer to approach,
Windows and closed doors on their homes.
Not a word heard to hear,
Thanking God each day...
For their breath to breathe.
Leaving them feeling blessed to express it.
With life to receive and experience.

Yet...
What it is that is heard and clear,
Is how does God expect them to replace...
Everything they have.
To have had worked their entire lives to get.
Now left they are with nothing to impress,
Neighbors, co-workers, family and friends!

And...
Rush then to the government,
To demand and insist...
The government bails them out,
Of a predicament.
They neither planned nor knew would come,
To remove them from their comfort zones.

As if immigrants, refugees...
The homeless to ignore and leave hungry.
Veterans of wars to have fought them.
Left somewhere on the streets ignored.
Purposely.
Are the sole owners,
Of their dilemmas created and homemade...
By the very ones,
Who assume their civic duty...
Is to selfishly please their wants and needs.
Exclusively.
With a doing not to have spent two minutes,
Proving a deserving of entitlements.

Yet...
First they are to say and express,
Their bigotry and hatred for others to accept.
Done to do and this to believe,
God made their noses to turn up.
While sniffing the 'trash' they pass.
Taught...
From perches perfect to fit the butts of fools.
Too ignorant to recognize themselves stupid!


Scheme axbxcxxcx xxaxxxxxxx Dxbxdex xfxxfxx xgxxgxxxgxgxx Dexxxxxxx
Poetic Form Tetractys  (29%)
Metre 010110 1010101 010101 111001101 01100100 01101111100 01001000101 0110000100010 1111111101 1 101000100101 100110 011010101 10011111 101111 10111 11111 1011011011 1110100100 1 11111101 111101111 1011 11111010111 1111110101 1011010001 0 1110100 101001 0100111 100100 11011111 101111101 1110010 0101010110 100111111 1110101 100 10110 11010010011 10101 10111010 11111101 0100 10101111110 10001010100 1 11111001 1100010110101 11101101 11110111 1100111 1 11001110111 11001100110
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,773
Words 352
Sentences 41
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 9, 10, 7, 7, 13, 9
Lines Amount 55
Letters per line (avg) 25
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 231
Words per stanza (avg) 49
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Written on September 23, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on September 23, 2023

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