Analysis of Self Serving



As of yet,
There is no law to prevent anyone...
From lieing and using alibis to create them,
To themselves told to tell.
Until convinced.

Although,
Lieing to others as a defense to accuse others.
For what they did not do to prove.
And this is said,
To be a right one is entitled to do.

Regardless of whose credibility and integrity,
Has become ruined and destroyed.

Those who lie and deceive,
Done with incredible dishonesty.
No one believes.
Is protected by a law that allows free speech.
While those maintain to keep,
Saying what they please to claim...
They are the ones victimized,
By an injustice applied to satisfy others.
Others once seen to sit.
Then jump to their feet.

Producing evidence and the proof of it.
That in private and public too!
Their lives have been intentionally destroyed,
By those who deceive, lie and disobey laws,
Should be treated like everyone else.

Yet,
Are not.
Because...
Well,
Because of a name to have given not to earn.
And a status obtained.
With followers entertained to remain,
Applauding those lawless...
Who fraud, corrupt and deceive.
Like the heros they see on TV and in movies.

Galloping away on their horses to ride high.
Towards the Sunset to leave behind,
All crimes alleged to have committed.

Free from a chasing posse.

Observed to witness cheering and waving,
Their goodbyes.
Enthusiastically with tears wiped from eyes!
To return back and blame,
The ones innocent for providing...
Too much proof and evidence.
Without none of it to fiction!

'Huh?
What you guys are saying.
Makes no sense at all.'

'We said the same thing.
That's why we came back.
After we realize,
The facts and truth was used as a distraction.
To confuse us to what was what.
And which was which!'

'What purpose are we here to serve?'

'There you go,
Trying to judge us.
And all we did,
Was to make sure everyone...
Self serving or not,
Has the right to free speech.
With a doing as they please
To keep protected.
And that's what we did done to do!'

'Were you paid to disobey our way of life?'

'Why?
So you'll have a reason,
To have us arrested for not paying taxes?
And besides...
If we were to have been paid,
It was not from under a table.
Investigate that on your time not ours!'

'What has happened,
To the rules and laws of justice?'

'What has happened to the kettle,
Hiding all the pots cloaked in black!?'


Scheme ABXCX DEXXF GH IGXJXKXELX LFHMX ANMCXXXOIP QXR G STTKSXB XSX SUTBXX X DOXBNJPRF X QBXXXVE XO VU
Poetic Form
Metre 111 111110110 11010101011 101111 0101 1 1110100110110 11111111 0111 11011101011 01011010000100 10110001 111001 1101000100 1101 101010110111 110111 1011111 1101100 110100111010 101111 11111 01010000111 10100101 11110100001 1110110011 11101101 1 11 01 1 011011110111 001001 110001101 010110 1101001 1010111110010 100011110111 01011101 110111010 1101010 0111010010 11 0010011111 101101 011001010 1110100 01111110 1 111110 11111 11011 11111 10110 01011110010 10111111 0111 11011111 111 10111 0111 111110 11011 101111 1010111 11010 01111111 01110110111 1 111010 111010111010 001 1101111 111110010 0101111110 1110 10101110 11101010 10101101
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 2,346
Words 514
Sentences 55
Stanzas 17
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 2, 10, 5, 10, 3, 1, 7, 3, 6, 1, 9, 1, 7, 2, 2
Lines Amount 79
Letters per line (avg) 23
Words per line (avg) 5
Letters per stanza (avg) 106
Words per stanza (avg) 25
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Written on November 20, 2023

Submitted by lpahtillah on November 20, 2023

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