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Eat The Orphans
Contributed by
ToughPoet
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Sunday, 6th June 2004 @ 07:38:33 AM in AEST
Topic:
InspirationalPoems
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EAT THE ORPHANS
By Marty RicKard
Why do you drive spikes into your own brain
Why don’t you act to ease the pain
Don’t you hear the orphans call
Or
are they too close for you to hear at all
Perhaps it’s the number
Too many messages becomes none
One sting makes you cry
yet you assimilate the many
—embrace stimulus
—ignore stimuli
They are everywhere
—pleading
They swim in the light you breathe
and in the glowering darkness where you pretend sleep
while silence sits upon your chest like a grinding stone
and
though you won’t see them
you are never alone
They are with you always
Time can’t be wasted
life can
Vapor rises from your bowl
the leaving invisible
the lessening obvious
while you abuse innocence
The noisy venom of your voice
cracks like senseless gunfire
over the ass of your faithful ox
while the earth around you sweats
Answer the orphaned hungers
Hear their painful pleas
as they tumble in your belly
like white-hot rocks in a lapidary drum
Eat the fire and it shall go out
You gave up what you had
before you got what you wanted
and now you walk on cinders
and demons haunt you
and the butterflies
have deserted you
Is there hope for you
self-blinded
self-deafened screamer
with too much time
and not enough life
on your hands
How vile is your hunger
You must have love
but first you must love
You must love enough
to eat the orphans
Only then will you sleep
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Re: Eat The Orphans
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by wray on
Sunday, 6th June 2004 @ 07:50:43 AM AEST
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| Potentially very disturbing.. i'm glad the orphans aren't kids.. if you were going for the shock effect to shock ppl into embracing their goals/dreams then congratulations. |
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Re: Eat The Orphans
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by Whisper on
Sunday, 6th June 2004 @ 02:09:46 PM AEST
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Powerful write. Excellent . Enuff Said :-)
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Re: Eat The Orphans
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by Essentially9 on
Wednesday, 30th June 2004 @ 09:25:27 PM AEST
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| very intriguing and interesting. |
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