Innocent victims
Children gone without a trace
We know the villains
Cowards preying on the young
Where is the world outrage
Each time it happens
It falls further down the screen
A ticker–its home
How sad we’ve become immune
To the plight of the helpless
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie – Wordle #12
Though wall of block, a wisp I spied
Through peephole–well not more than crack
Golden hair, skin of ivory eyed
While perched on crate, one two I stacked
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Her features shone like porcelain ‘tis true
Vertiginous from height or beauty unsure
From my perch to the ground in a flutter I flew
Regaining my wits was certainly a chore
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Meet her I must if the last thing I do
Her door I did charge feeling strangely at ease
I knock with brass knocker not one time but two
To the butler I ask, “fetch my lady if you please”
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Loveliest of ladies scent of lilac and fair
Laconic I was in her all consuming presence
My mind like an eddy void of breath and of air
Giddy as most boys in adolescence
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Most surely I appeared as the oddity I must be
Arriving at her door unannounced
With grace and with style she greeted me with glee
My fragile heart she cherished not trounced
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
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This solitary tree,
Utterly alone amongst the brown grasses.
Nary a leaf can I see,
iIgnored by the traveling masses.
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No birds find cause to seek shelter,
No buds rise to show you love.
Dry and brittle in the noonday swelter,
Limbs raised to Heaven hoping for rain from above.
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What have you done to be shunned…an outcast,
Sentence too cruel for such an innocent one.
Punishment levied you’d hoped you’d outlast,
With each passing day a new days begun.
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I look on with sorrow and the shedding of tears,
As I see myself in you, one and the same.
With scarcely a friend after all of these years,
I’ve no one to place, except me with the blame.
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I too just as you have my soul laid out bare,
A wish for companionship to stay.
Broken and weak I expose to the air,
The longing for love I keep locked away.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Image Credit: centerforjoyfulliving.net
The joy of children
There’s no greater innocence
In this savage world
Our responsibility
To protect their purity
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
What drives man?
Greed, honor, sadness, love, anger, jealousy.
What drives man to madness?
The very same greed, honor, sadness, love, anger, jealousy.
Excuses for the evil that we do
Yet inexcusable by all accounts.
Innocence taken for causes only known to them.
Lives shattered!
Pain inflicted!
Sadness instilled!
No cause justifies their cowardice!
Their selfishness!
Their God complex!
These are criminals deserving of punishment,
Harsh and swift,
Showing no mercy,
For deeds done of their own free will.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
By D. R. DiFrancesco
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I found a place,
Deep inside me,
Warm and comforting,
Something I thought I’d lost.
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So many years ago,
Innocence shielded me,
Harbored my emotions,
Enveloped me in the simplicity of youth.
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Age changed,
I let my gentility drift off,
Replacing it with cynicism,
Spoiling the wonder of me.
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The world didn’t change,
It is still just as wondrous,
Instead it was me that was corrupted,
My skepticism and pessimism changed my view.
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Looking for the worst,
My fellow man could not be trusted,
Conniving and deceitful by nature,
I lost sight of the decent.
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My perception flawed,
Skewed by life experience,
Taken as the standard bearer,
Distorting my future interactions.
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Mistrust instills bitterness,
Fear of the worst is all consuming,
Depression and anxiety take root,
Trapping ugliness inside.
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Tired of the sadness,
No longer recognizable,
It was not me in the mirror,
Rather a shell of who I was.
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With eyes wide,
I looked deep,
Straining to find the innocent me,
Drawn to tears by the time I’d lost.
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There is joy in letting go,
Finding good in what surrounds me,
Purging the cynic and skeptic,
Anchors that weighed me down.
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I have found that place,
Pleasing to my body and soul,
Lost so many years ago,
To the ravages of maturity.
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