ALL ALONE

All alone, filled with her own thought

About her own life and someone

That someone is called everyone

Why should everyone be her thought?

Feelings she burden in her heart

Thought she burden in her head

Love takes away her heart

Everyone is right in her head

Evil and Devil

Good and God

Love and Man

Limitation and Traditions

This is the unexplainable thought running through her mind

Her wish becomes a fear

Her heart moan in despair

Everyone’s thought is disparaging me

Why? Her mouth forbids words to someone

The one who created everybody is not fallible agnised

Just like a beau ideal with more appraisal

He should have just let everything be visualised

And not make love, thought and feelings envisioned

If this had been she would be loving everybody and nobody

Now, I will have to wait and Hope

Hope everyone sees my feet and not my leg

Hope everyone understand my thought and not my head

Hope someone sees the colour and not the cloth

Hope everyone sees am in love with someone.

SUMMARY

The Poem is about a young lass. She is lonely and thinking about something. She is thinking about a young lad which she love and the criticism everyone will make if they found out she is thinking of telling the lad about her feelings which is seen as an abomination in the society( tradition and limitations)

From the first stanza, she talks about her loneliness and her thought. She called the lad someone and named him everyone. Everyone will take the place of everybody in her society including her lad.

 She talks about how deep the thought weigh her in the second verse. In line three she began to show to the reader how complex what she is thinking look like, whether her thought is good or evil? Tradition which she sees as a limitation as it is forbidden by tradition in this part of the world for a lady to express her feelings to man who his not looking at her.

In the third stanza she talks about her dilemma, how what she wishes (i.e. to express her feeling to the lad) was making her sad. In line 3 of the third stanza she talks about the reaction of everyone to her intended action in line 4.

In the fourth stanza, she talks about God imperfectness not been recognised, that his flaw is not recognized but instead praised (beau ideal with more appraisal…) she wishes God could have made feelings and thought visible for man to see. In the fifth line of the fourth stanza she antagonized her wish, that if God should allow feelings and thought to be visible nobody will be loved.

She finally conclude on her stand in the final stanza, that she is going to wait for the lad to realize her love for him. Hoping one day he will see she is in-love with him.

 





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