Shadows Loom Larger

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North Korean fence line
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Shadows loom larger

As an unsteady peace wanes.

One side posturing,

Flexing behind high fences,

Extorting the world with fear.

 Brothers and sisters,

Born of the same lineage

Cry from the sidelines

Over a 60 year old feud,

Asking…Will it ever end?

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~

Inconsideration

Have you become so ridiculous

That you justify your ill actions and commentary

With the blanket phrase…“I didn’t know.”?

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Has age taught you nothing,

No process of discovery,

No method to discern.

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Did your parents not instruct you well

In the virtue of restraint,

Knowledge of right and wrong,

In common courtesy?

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You speak and act as if ignorant of the consequences;

Lobbing pain, physical and psychological haphazardly,

Without regard for the well-being of your victim.

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Even in light of your blunders,

You deem your flaming rhetoric insignificant,

Offering no apology, no embarrassment, no sorrow.

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Portraying yourself as the fool,

Friends and loved ones distance themselves,

Hoping you’ll see the error of your ways.

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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~