They offer you many things,
I a few.
Moonlight on the play of fountains at night
With water sparkling a drowsy monotone,
Bare-shouldered, smiling women and talk
And a cross-play of loves and adulteries
And a fear of death and a remembering of regrets:
All this they offer you.
I come with:
salt and bread
a terrible job of work
and tireless war;
Come and have now:
hunger.
danger
and hate.
Choices
Carl Sandburg
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Poem topics: death, fear, hate, night, war, water, women, work, hunger, terrible, bread, talk, moonlight, play, offer, I love you, I miss you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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