Reverse Poem
Anish Das | Glen Waverley Secondary College |
7/8 English | Term 2, 2024
Chaos rules the world
It is a falsehood that
We can fix this fiery ball of hell
Yes it is true
It is everyone for themselves
You must be sadly mistaken that
Courage and hope mingle among us
It must be true that
Carnage and plague tears through the world
You must be cracked in the head if you think that
We can harness hope and love and forge a better future
We have to face facts that
Death laughs at us we slaughter each other
We have to grimly accept that right now
Our Earth is doomed
Only fools will believe
We can learn from our malicious mistakes
I declare to you right now
This is a scarred, selfish and stupid existence
I refuse to even consider that
We can remedy this black hole of despair
It is certainly true that
The rich and the powerful mock us from their sky high palaces
We should ridicule the fact that
The world is not dead yet
We have to accept that
The world spits black gunk, greedy oil and horrifying fire at our faces
I am adamant that this is not true
Together, the world can rule over the chaos that plagues it
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Anish Das | Glen Waverley Secondary College
