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Lay Your Thick White Blanket on our Land

Lay your thick white blanket on our land

 

Cover up the corruption

The beggars scavenging for food

 

Lay your thick white blanket on our land

 

It freezes the lies in mid-air

Gives the children a smile

Freezes the parents’ tears

 

Let the thick white blanket stay on this earth

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Winter Scenepoverty

The Snow is not to blame

The snow is not to blame

In fact, it covers it up

All that I see is kindness

On the white covered ground

 

The snow is not to blame

 

It offers a rest bite

from worry,

as the crystals float past

my window  

 

an endless letting

       go

an endless letting

             go

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snowhopeNaturewinter

Unfriend

I’m staring out of the coffee shop window

In a strange land

 

A pang in my stomach

Why didn’t I take anyone with me

 

No one to meet

From when I was 18

Right through to my 30’s and beyond

Until 40’s 50’s I had a new one

But he withered and died

 

Why didn’t I take them with me

I feel a pang inside

 

But each carried me

To where I am now…

 

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societyalonenessfriendships

The knock at the door will come

The knock at the door will come,

As night follows night.

They come at this time you know  

When justice is out of sight

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