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Anger

by Shirley Smothers

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Anger consumes me

Eats my soul like a cancer

Self inflicted hell

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Saturday 16th June 2012 8:39 pm

Anger   sad   hell

Starved to Death, for Jovonie

by Shirley Smothers

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If only I had known

what was happening,

If only I had known

where you lived.

 

If only I had known,

I would have gone

into your home.

I would have

taken you out.

 

If only I had known,

I would have taken

you into my home.

I would have fed you.

 

If ...

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Tuesday 10th January 2012 7:58 pm

sad   death   abuse   Child

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