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Tramp Poet
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since 2000-01-06
Posts 754
Could Be Anywhere...

0 posted 2000-02-02 03:37 PM


Experienced?

Isn’t it OK
when your welfare mama
gets out all those familiar tools
making screams outta her pain?

Isn’t it OK
when your drunken, bewildered father
beats her, leaves her a bloody mess
then comes lookin for you?

Isn’t it OK
when the gangsters break in
rape your spouse over, over, over
then finish with laughing torture?

Isn’t it OK
when the other inmates
hold you down, cursing and screaming
and no one ever comes to rescue?

Isn’t it OK
when your child rebels, snaps
mirrors the generational rage
seemingly without beginning nor end?

Isn’t violence OK
when it has a life of it’s own
a monster grown, cultivated
and released with experience?

DJBurt  2/00  EndoftheRoad
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  there is only one...
Romans 10:9-10

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Danny Holloway
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since 2000-01-15
Posts 2034
Tulsa, OK
1 posted 2000-02-02 03:52 PM


It's never OK when there's human suffering involved.
You present doors, behind which most have no desire to look.
The writing is strong and real. It touches nerves.  Many lives  are lived in quiet despiration!
Live on in peace!
DH


 

PhaerieChild
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since 1999-08-30
Posts 1787
Aloha, Oregon
2 posted 2000-02-02 10:25 PM


OUCH!!! Man bro!!! I know life has dealt each of us a crappy hand but no it weren't okay!!! And guess what?!! It still ain't!! I love you....Sis         (((((HUGS)))))

 Poetry~ Words falling on paper, painting a dream.

Shawna R. Holder
Boise, Idaho



Denise
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since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648

3 posted 2000-02-02 11:55 PM


It's a shame that many people actually experience these things every day. Very sad.
Well written poem!

Denise

serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738

4 posted 2000-02-03 02:24 AM


I know.  I also know this, and it may be surprising to some, but being punched in the face does not hurt--it's the HEALING that hurts like hell.
Echo Rhayne
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since 1999-09-17
Posts 1495
Canyon Country, CA
5 posted 2000-02-04 01:54 AM


WoW!  I am at a loss for words...

 Just be glad I'm not your child! *evil grin*


Tramp Poet
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since 2000-01-06
Posts 754
Could Be Anywhere...
6 posted 2000-02-05 10:58 AM


thank y'all for the imput and
comments...very true that it's the
healing that hurts sometimes.
And sometimes the healing never comes...
        b


  there is only one...
Romans 10:9-10

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