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Parents bleed failure
Shattered by their children’s cries
Hungry and dirty
Tortured by their poverty
They look above for relief
But prayers are ignored
They don’t qualify for aid
How poor must you be
In this, the greatest nation
Before they are helped
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
I gifted my heart
So many years ago now
Like priceless treasure
Cherished and highly prized
Then held for ransom
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Sadness, quiet, eerie blows,
On garnished leaves to where who knows,
A fall from grace in painful throes,
To die in forlorn anonymity.
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Acrid tears fall on arid plain,
O’er rock and berm toward sea of flame,
Where passion burns lone side disdains,
A heart in mangled perpetuity.
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Asphyxiated soul, torrid and weak,
Heaves vital breath for redolence to seek,
Speechless and winded, powerless to speak,
In silence thy sentience doth flicker.
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These stolid misfortunes no more shall they hinder,
Gathered in bushel– cloaked as barren split tinder,
Leaving the past a hoard of smoldering cinders,
With courage, volition sustains.
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
The light fails me,
I open my eyes,
Hoping to see more clearly,
But there is no focus.
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Nothing is as is should be,
My head hurts in the painful quiet,
There is no comfort,
In this cold empty bed.
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I drove me to this madness,
And you, away in disgust,
I didn’t try to stop you,
Stubbornly shunning you.
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Your tears did not deter,
I swore you’d be back,
How could you live without me,
After all these years.
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But emptiness speaks volumes,
Shouting your answer,
“I’m gone!”
On my once deaf ears.
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Don’t regret the past
Focus on what lies ahead
You are it’s master
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Knees pulled to her chest
A destitute mother weeps
For her unborn child
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
Blasphemous lies spewed
Like daggers thrust, filleting us
Cowardice revealed as your forte’
I knew you not as well as I thought
Your blackened heart splayed
Expelling hatred, thick and vile
Engulfing what once I treasured
Swallowing it whole
With nary a trace to be had
Why? Is the question
For I know not what baited this provocation
Friendship at length counts for naught
Preferring to wrench away
Every miniscule crumb of what bound us
With sorrow I begged explanation
But none was offered
Receiving only silence in response
With sadness I must bid adieu
Wishing you only the best
I harbor no ill will
Hoping one day for reconciliation
Until then my friend
Farewell
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
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Solemn vow, I do’s
Said during wedding day bliss
Oft lost over time
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco
Your blanket of lies
Pulled tightly around my head
Suffocating trust
Killing, what I thought we shared
Sun, moon and the air we breathe
~~ D. R, DiFrancesco ~~
I blink and you’re gone
Half our bed is crisp and cold
Empty like my heart
Broken by my one true love
Destined to wander alone
~~ D. R. DiFrancesco ~~
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