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HEG
Junior Member

since 2002-01-18

Posts 42

0 posted 2002-04-11 12:27 PM

In Jerusalem a seventeen-year-old girl,
an Israeli, goes to the store to buy bread.
There she encounters an eighteen-year-old girl,
Palestinian...a living bomb...soon both are dead.

These teenage girls lived but four miles apart,
one in modern housing, one in a refugee camp,
one wanting peace, one with hatred in her heart.
In this world of darkness, can no one light a lamp?

In Shreveport a nineteen-year-old white girl
is driving home from shopping at the mall.
She stops at an intersection. Suddenly her world
comes to a violent end. It makes no sense at all.

Two black teens at the corner convenience store
got into a fight...they were members of rival gangs.
It seems fights can’t be settled without guns anymore.
Her world ended with that bang...his with a jail cell’s clang.

These two teenagers lived but four miles apart,
she in an upscale subdivision, he in “depressed housing”.
She a college freshman, he a dropout – angry at heart.
Their tragedy passed unnoticed, without alarm arousing.

Four more mothers now will endure a lifetime of grief.
Conflicts unresolved for generations...it’s beyond belief.
From all this violence, can there never be any relief?
It takes from the world peace and security like a sneak thief...

[Ya'll are invited to come visit me at www.gillelands.com/poetry/ ]

Greeneyes

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

1 posted 2002-04-12 12:45 PM

It is A sad world sometimes, where peace can not prevail, to happiness....a grey scale of life, you said it sadly, but written well....

Lauren~

Step through the
barrier of my mind,
enter my soul,
feel my desire,
let my eyes guide you
into the shadows of my heart

See me?
Member

since 2002-02-13

Posts 93
UK

2 posted 2002-04-12 04:07 PM

A sad write but still very good. Very true as well people can be so close but yet so far apart. Great write
God Bless
Clare

Life is about change,sometimes its painful,sometimes its beautiful,sometimes its both.

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

3 posted 2002-04-12 04:14 PM

Good thoughts here..."Monsters Ball" is a good example of how thoughts are passed down froom father to son...either love or hatred can be passed on...in this case the son did something about it...James

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

4 posted 2002-04-12 05:05 PM

mine just turned 14 today and she thinks she knows it all. I am not sure I can handle these next years coming, but all I can do is teach what's good and pray every day, I guess.

skyshine

Member Elite

since 2002-02-07

Posts 3058
Beneath the northern stars

5 posted 2002-04-12 06:34 PM

We all live in the same, yet different world....very sad but nicely written. Good job.

~sky

I'm in charge, and I say question authority!

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

6 posted 2002-04-12 11:29 PM

I like the way you presented this, highlighting and contrasting these tragedies which were so different, yet with the same results. And where do we all go from here? How many more mothers, fathers, children, sisters and brothers must cry? Thank you for a well written, sensitive piece.

TriXter
Member

since 2002-03-20

Posts 112
The One

7 posted 2002-04-12 11:39 PM

'Tis a sad poem *tearry eyes* But then again a beautiful poem, I enjoyed it

The man of few words...

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