Divided We Stand

Context: Beginning college and trying to find my way, thinking about careers and money involved. Thinking about people with millions and people with nothing.

Divided I stand

A stone in the sand.

Looking for the way

When, here is where I lay.

The meaning of life

Is to lessen their strife.

What are I to do

In a world askew.

Divided I stand

A stone in the hand.

Roll with the wind

Or erode and face sin.

Shunned and away

To stay out of the way.

Divided I stand

To fight or to land.

A choice must be made

To move or be laid.

To fight for what’s mine

Or to wait in line.

Divided I stand

Unsure of my plan.

What’s unfair to me

Isn’t what you see.

My fights not with you

Finding my way through.

Divided we stand,

Our stones in the sand.

Education is pain

Truth is vain.

We will all end up the same

This world is for no man to claim.

Author's Note

Did not revise this, just wrote and posted, might not make sense, interpret as you will.

Reviews

[Quill]

i feel the poet is questioning his role in the world