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• Faith

  September 8, 2013

  Thoughts, regrets and loneliness plague my soul. How can I walk the path of righteousness with my past peering over my shoulder? Painful tears etch down my face, searing scars into my heart. The hollowness can never be filled with the deluge of tears that overflow the banks into my soul. The fier...

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• Abide

  August 29, 2013

  Hush now.The time is near for all your crying.Stand proudfor one more hour.Your quiet company is requiredfor one last journey.Mother Earthhas opened her brown bellyto nurture himfor new beginningsWeep now.Wake the dead with all your wailing.Sister Fateshave torn your soul apart.The world is empti...

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• A Common Man

  August 26, 2013

  in the beginning I was a bonnetwhite of lace with blue bow on itwith satin straps around a chinchubby cheeks and droolly grinsoon I became a pair of shoesthat hopped around like kangaroosheld skinny legs and knobby kneesand wandered mostly where they pleasedaround fourteen: a pair of pantsthat ne...

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• The Shallows

  July 1, 2013

  No depth leftto the crush of the tidewhere love once rushedfeelings now subsideWashed awayby the ebb and flowof time's shifting sandsbeneath our toesStandingour heads hung lowin the shallows of friendshipthe loss only growsWeepingas we say goodbyefor all time to comethe tears will never dry.Copyr...

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• Alzheimer’s Boy

  June 22, 2013

  Here I lay sleeping, alone in my bed, unconscious and dreaming, dormant and dead. A corpse for a moment, cold to the touch, silently breathing, but not very much. No one to love me, no one to kiss, wrought with incontinence, sodden with piss. Abandoned by family, left for the birds, to rot in the...

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• Holocaust Moments

  June 20, 2013

  Agonizingly reaching down from my bunk to yours,we clutched through the sorrow and suffering.Human tactile touch eased the numbness.My bleak tortured, meaningless lifewas momentarily, albeit briefly, soothed.Through the anguished misery,you were my temporary lifeline.Our broken and battered bodie...

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• Evening Clouds

  June 17, 2013

  When evening clouds are glory huedand day comes to an endactivity is more subduedas light and darkness blendit's time for rest absolved of carea truly precious time to share   it's time for rest   it's time for restas evening comes like silent prayerWhen evening clouds are glory huedall ready for...

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• The Storm

  June 6, 2013

  Roaring of clouds,Lightning in the Olympian heights,Vibrant blend of dark, blurry hues,The storm draped, withered, garlanded me,Trees bowed in reverence,And I was lost in awe!Copyright © 2013 Abhirupa MitraAll Rights Reserved.

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• I feel an earthquake coming …

  June 2, 2013

  I feel an earthquake coming; the pressure builds.Haven't you ever heardthat it's dangerousto approach an animalwho is backed into a corner?I live in the corner;I am the dog that wants to be loved,the man who doesn't know how.I'd started thereand now I'm here,just as anyone would be.I am not scare...

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