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Teen Poetry #8

Blood stained stars

rhia_5779
Senior Member

since 2006-06-09

Posts 1334
California

0 posted 2006-11-30 05:24 PM

Blood stained stars

Opaque pieces of material greed,
driving contorted twisted minds,
to force already open wounds to bleed.
Only a single gem, rare in find.

Stained with beads of scarlet red.
Tainted by the tens of thousands of lost lives.
A trade scarred by all the dead.
Takes Hell’s Inferno to melt, enough to die?

Children grown up in warfare, work in a futile struggle of life.
Searching for a gem that most of them will never get to see.
Slipping away slowly into dark and falling into the sky.
Berserk in lust for a jewel, driven mad betraying family.

Uncut treasure, defined by the money it is sold for.
Hardhearted smugglers shuffle the smudged cards that sculpt innocuous lives.
A thin grim mouth utters the words,” Not enough diamonds. More”
A twelve-year-old boy leading orders soldiers to gouge out offending eyes.

Shimmering lifeblood tainted rings, adorn uncaring fingers.
Illuminating constellations caught in gems, bought with tainted funds.
Child slain to find jewel, on wearing face horror briefly lingers.
Starry depths reflect back the crippled toddlers whose lives have just begun.

Valued at the highest price.
Blood diamonds rupturing, buried in the past, venerable scars.
Dying, so rebels get Ice.
Mutilated amputations mark Sierra Leone’s Diamond Wars.

Tempest
Member

since 2006-04-28

Posts 247
dont eat paint chips!!!!

1 posted 2006-12-01 06:20 PM

i thought this had a very cool name and a even better content.

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