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Teen Poetry #6

A Soft Whisper

sing'n fool
Member

since 2003-04-17

Posts 82
Morris, Il

0 posted 2003-05-31 01:46 AM

A Soft Whisper

Sometimes I stray from
the common domain of my home
and venture out past the limitations of corn.

Along the way old buildings
stare back with that of blank expression.
A once popular area
run down now by time.

A mother sits on the stoop
of her project home,
looking with watchful eyes and
listening with attentive ears.
She fears for a child
in a neighborhood of uncertanty.

In the distance you can see it...
A city where the buildings
look like that of outstreched hands
all reaching toward the heavens.

On the busy streets of downtown
business men and women
in there suits and dresses
seem to be those of wind-up toys.
One's wound to tight
and set down to hard.

Through the crowd
of hurried souls...
a forgotten man.
One that is at a slower pace
than the rest of the world
and life or death
really is day to day.

He stands with tattered clothes;
no longer concerned with looks.
His disposition is that of rotten eggs,
for happiness has long left him.
He is starved and malnurished,
for food does not come easily
and his home being nothing more
than a cardboard box.

I reflect on the way home
of my life and hardships
and I see that my troubles
are just soft whispers
in a world screaming for help.

M.P.D.

Be yourself. Say what you feel. Nothing is wrong. To your own self be real!!

[This message has been edited by sing'n fool (06-02-2003 04:02 PM).]

Fariegirl
Member

since 2003-02-05

Posts 147

1 posted 2003-05-31 08:21 AM

I know how it is when you dont care what you write... you just get that felling... good job.

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