Byron Poem

These thoughts are bursting from me;
I still hear the warning echo.
I'm confused as to why you can't see.
I will tell you what everyone has to know.

This world is at risk, it will surely fall.
Everyone's life could be at stake,
But I know I answered the call.
Now the truth I know has been deemed fake.

The echo that I once had,
The they chose not to hear,
It has shown me a world gone mad,
And now I've been locked up out of fear.

Look at what has happened. Don't ask "why" or "how."
Do you remember the message long ago?
My friend, do you notice it now?
The calm is over; it is no longer the same echo.


This poem is follows the same rhyme scheme as "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year." It is suppose to illustrate individual over group perceptions. The man in the poem has a warning for others, but they choose to not believe him. They imprisoned him because of his views. Towards the end, the chaotic events he told them start to come true. So he had been right all along.

Work Cited

Gordon, George. "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year." Ed. Ronald A. Horton. British Literature. Greenville: Bob Jones University Press, 1999. Print.