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Welcome Home

a poem; 10/19/2020

By Danahae BarracloughPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
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The night is long.

Welcome to a home,

a home with a crying child, who no one will ever hug.

He may try and try again, hurt after hurt.

He may learn that no one cares.

He may wither and die, or fight until there is nothing left.

Welcome to America,

a land of the free, freedom in a land of choice.

What a great lie we have been fed.

Some choose, most follow, pick your poison.

I have yet to see love with no strings attached.

Welcome to Humanity,

Humanity that has been buried.

No one understands one another, let us all hear the suffrage.

Now let us ignore their pleas.

Why do you presume to know what they are asking?

Welcome to Earth.

How ungrateful are we, that we would kill our own mother.

Use the institutions we abuse to try and neglect our environment.

Try and try to do nothing about the way things are.

Where did we come from?

Welcome the end.

Say goodbye to something we did not greet.

Love not, live not.

Play the game until you die.

Now eat the meal you prepared, it is the easiest one to acquire.

The image in your mind, the word of your ego.

Apathy. Let go, and see love.

Apathy. Feel again.

Apathy. Let your self die.

Who are you?

Stop worrying about the goal.

Why do we hurt one another searching for something imaginary.

The answer is right in front of us.

Peer into the space within.

How deep do you think it goes?

I do not know if the heart can die. Part of me fears it will not.

surreal poetry
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Danahae Barraclough

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