Pantoum Poem: World Walker

Free style can be easy to write for the author, but sometimes difficult for the reader to interpret.  When applying rules to a poem on the other hand, will it make the reader fall into the rhythm of the poem easier?  A Pantoum poem works with the second and fourth line becoming the first and third line of the next stanza.  Sometimes redundancies help create meaning (or double meaning) in a poem.  Restrictions do apply, so here are the results:  

World Walker

Walking in a muddy river

A never-ending road to dissent

We stumble over a rock

Falling at a constant speed

A never-ending road to dissent

Going downward like a slope

Falling at a constant speed

Humanity’s tower is falling

Going downward like a slope

Stocks fall down

Humanity’s tower is falling

But People are too busy fighting to notice

Stocks fall down

People lose their jobs

But People are too busy fighting to notice

And the leaders live in their last ultimate luxury

People lose their jobs

The Wilderness becomes an option

And the leaders live in their last ultimate luxury

They enlighten themselves with their rare living

The Wilderness becomes an option

The Crimson forests becomes their homes

They enlighten themselves with their rare living

The now ruined cities are coated with ash

The crimson forests becomes their homes

Becoming a confederacy of survivors

The now ruined cities are coated with ash

With their monuments looking off into the distance

Becoming a confederacy of survivors

They start all over from the beginning

With their monuments looking off into the distance

They walk to find food for their new world