safety turned to danger, and a problem became an only solution

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Open Poetry #38

safety turned to danger, and a problem became an only solution

elisalie16
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since 2006-07-12

Posts 118
new jersey

0 posted 2006-07-19 01:47 PM

as the sunlight died
your face flickered and flashed
and a sick shaded green swarmed over our heads
in place of blue or grey or gold and hope.
our setting was shredded as we hurried down flights of stairs
with hands on heads or over ears
to shield out screams that echoed with silence.
objects of cover came crashing down
and we were left to forfeit our attempts to save ourselves,
in exchange for thankful words and drenched dark clothes.
the hair of girls, set so carefully and held with grace
was seen laying in dreads of muddied water,
and dripping with black that stained their shoes.
a safe house threatened us with massacre
while it warned that the only places we had left to hide
were the houses we fled from by day.
the air blasted cold and the stove blurred with heat,
and although the girls' hair dried and the screaming winds lost their will to screech
while the specks of black were scrubbed away,
new sicknesses arose and took residence deep in chests,
caused by the such unfamiliar shelter
and the ice it shot through humnan bone.

aziza
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since 2006-07-09

Posts 2995
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1 posted 2006-07-21 03:25 AM

Pretty powerful and very visual.

aziza

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