Analysis of (The) Grabbing Of Power To Have It

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Power grabbers.
Fighting amongst themselves,
To ascend to positions...
Of authority,
Within the walls and halls,
Where rules, laws and justice...
Are created.
With beliefs they can restrict to limits,
For certain citizens to make difficult...
Their right and privilege to vote,
For who they choose and please.
Should have this doing made clear,
Who has lost their mental faculties!

Those elected to represent,
Their constituents...
Across a diverse demographic,
Yet thirst for themselves...
The image of power first.
Have been miraged.
By a consciousness that has betrayed,
Any remnants left of common sense.

Who was it that sat,
On a homegrown throne...
Had the ability to convince,
A greatness to have achieved it...
Could remain sustained,
With eliminating the reality...
Of its diversity to observe and see.
And this actually believed?

Followed by supporters.
And thoughtlessly endorsed.
Applauded and cheered,
This action was enforced.

Proud of their efforts to endeavor.

'Uh...
What about the economy?
Dependent upon the diversity of it.
And every aspect of our lives,
Fed to feed the quality of it.
Can not survive,
On fraud, corruption...
Nor the lovers of told lies.'

Ignored to go unheard those words.
Since the ones focused,
On power to grab it and have...
Decided they would rather,
Be represented by image.
Symbolizing a power idolized.
And this will deliver to them more,
A feeding to feast upon a greed...
Deluded historically fictioned!

'We have taught them a lesson.
Haven't we?'

'Yes!
This we have done.
To prove our commitment.
Focused upon image.
And what power to have it,
To 'us' represents.
But...
Who will be the ones,
Left to remember...
The benefits of it?
And...
At whose expense?
Paying the cost of the consequences!?


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Poetic Form
Metre 1010 100101 1011010 10100 010101 111010 1010 1011101110 11010011100 1101011 111101 1111011 111110100 1010101 10100 01001010 11101 0101101 111 101001101 101011101 11111 10111 100100101 01011011 10101 10100010 11010010101 0110001 101010 0101 01001 110101 111101010 1 10100100 010010010011 010011101 111010011 1101 11010 1010111 01110111 10110 11011101 101110 1010110 10001010 011010111 010110101 010010001 1111010 101 1 1111 1110010 100110 0110111 1101 1 11101 11010 010011 0 1101 100110100
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 1,681
Words 287
Sentences 46
Stanzas 9
Stanza Lengths 13, 8, 8, 4, 1, 8, 9, 2, 13
Lines Amount 66
Letters per line (avg) 21
Words per line (avg) 4
Letters per stanza (avg) 150
Words per stanza (avg) 32
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Submitted by lpahtillah on May 08, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

1:25 min read
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