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Poem: Suffering
When I see this suffering
In another persons eyes
My tears felt deep they clutch and cut
The membrane of my human size
Make me look into that vacant gaze
The scruffy hair the ragged blanket wrapped to care
The dirt of not one coin to spare
It’s pride less begging gone is hope
It’s a self that fumbling tries to grope
It’s a being no longer looking forward to the day
It’s hopeless despair
Who cares
Look away
Their tears have long since dried
Before the weeping down inside
Turns to cudgel the muddled mind
This child born free, could this tragedy also be a part of me?
Where could they find just one last grain of hope
To plant into a waking day?
Naught but dust
Naught but frighteningly caught in pain
Suffering
