The Role (A Dark Poem about Modern Society)

"The Role" criticizes how scripted our modern society has become. Using the metaphor of our world being a "stage", it suggests that we have all become puppets in that we have stopped thinking for ourselves and blindly follow what others have prescribed for us.

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• role
• puppet
• actor
• script
• society
• modern
• delusion
• stage
• dark
• poem
• poems
• poetry
• verse
• rhyme
• rhymewire
• rhymewirepoetry
• Larissa
• Lara
• Covato
• Cavato
• poetiza
• poetessa
• poetess
• Canadian
• Toronto
• blindly
• follow

[SolaceMusicChannel]

As someone else said, the visuals are very accommodating. Wonderful job, fellow Torontonian :) It got really intense around the last lines too.

[terribletome]

i love it...very deep and thoughtful.....

[NeverMindTheSnow]

i've heard this poem before and just loved it.

had no idea you wrote it. will check out your other works.

take care, miss rhyme:)

[geogreg27]

Wow, you are really deep. I really enjoy your visual walk though of imagery and words. Incredible topic/idea. (( AWESOME ))

[TheDisguisesMusic]

Fantastic work, and you wouldn't think so being young, but this is something over half the band debate and discuss on a regular basis as there are a lot of pressures on the young these days!

[JackAsmo7]

I really like this, the recitation and the text :)

[TheKnightimeProject]

Hi Lara! You really hit the nail on the head with this poem! I think a lot of us feel the same as you - but the way you put it so eloquently into words...Ooooo - I feel another idea for a song coming along... :D! B

[CCPoetryNow]

Beautifully written and read. Powerfully evocative. Thank you for sharing your Poetry dear Friend:)

[ohwhererehwho]

Your poem reflects upon the dark underbelly of the fish - dark because it is in shadow. We all swim as if in a dream, for some their roles are simpler, for others not. My father was a stagehand, my mother a painter. I never wanted to be a performer on the stage. There was something grander to be found when I contemplated an empty theater as an empty canvas...I continue to seek that fish to be in society.

[nickharvey7]

Nice! I believe that poetry represents the truth, maybe poetry creates its own reality within the mind of the reader and writer and this is where the truth of poetry comes from!