Another Loss

Someone tried to make a difference and failed.

Another Loss

 

With little trepidation

he talked of the degradation

present in this young generation

 he held dear.

Said he feared

he must end his career;

He couldn’t steer

them in the right direction.

(Or any for that matter)

Like water

slipping through his fingers,

the troubles lingered.

He humbly accepted defeat,

knew he had been beat;

poor man was no match for the devils on the streets.

Another gallant effort in vain,

can someone please explain?

Must the search for joy bring about such pain?

 

Reviews

[Quiet Child]

wonderful! great description here as well. self experience maybe?

[K. Louis]

There are moments of real honesty in your work and I like that. At other times, I think the rhyming is too constraining...limiting for you. I would like to see what happens with your writing if you took your attention off some of these poetic devices a little.

[Dreamer]

sure we lose sometimes...but stop trying will cause us lose ones self...
that's a powerful line, I enjoyed reading this poem! nicely done Inda (:

[Laminators Dubai]

lived it so known...
no one...
sure we lose sometimes...but stop trying will cause us lose ones self...

that's a powerful write inda.

[Inda]

Thanks, means a lot!

[Laminators Dubai]

anything for you...