To Live Like This

You ask about the chaos here?

Just let me tell you of my fear,

there is no calm and no delight;

to live like this just can’t be right.



I hate their shit and silly rules,

it’s all made up by stupid fools.

Chaotic stress makes me uptight,

to live like this just can’t be right.



I feel so angry when I read

of starving children and their need,

our common sense has taken flight;

to live like this just can’t be right.



I can’t stay calm with all these bills,

while politicians get their thrills.

It’s in the paper every night,

to live like this just can’t be right.



With traffic jams and honking horns,

my aching feet with swollen corns.

They keep the poor folks out of sight,

to live like this just can’t be right.



I grasp the chaos in my palm

and squeeze it tight ‘till I am calm.

I clench my fist with knuckles white,

to live like this just can’t be right.




Author's Notes/Comments: 

Kyrielle:

A Kyrielle is a French form of rhyming poetry written in quatrains (a stanza consisting of 4 lines), and each quatrain contains a repeating line or phrase as a refrain. Each line within the poem consists of only eight syllables. There is no limit to the amount of stanzas a Kyrielle may have, but three is considered the accepted minimum. Some popular rhyming schemes for a Kyrielle are: aabB, ccbB, ddbB, with B being the repeated line, or abaB, cbcB, dbdB.

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