Gone

Went away one day

Hid

On the moors

Where every swell and dip

Looks like every other

Counted to ten

Over and over

And over again

They looked in ditches

In the bleak mist

Of northern hills

Black shadowed coppers

Bobbies with grim features

That would stay with them

A lifetime

My mother cried

Never stopped looking

Died

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Daniel In The Hyena’s Den

his limbs break like sticks

and these protectors

these vermin

hurt him

he has no more dreams

only the lonely nights

locked in the room

where pain will come

with demon eyes.

others

see a thin child

nothing more

but much less

in soul

they justify

their negligence

by quoting

numbers

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