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 Dec 2014 Metanoia
Jennifer Weiss
Can you believe it?
They're evil,
them heathens
we have all elected.
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"It's okay,"
they told us
on the same channel as the news
that "beating, and burning, and water boarding
is just something we do!"
"Jack Bauer does it,
so our government must too!"
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It's normal to torture,
It's something we've all just accepted.
What our world has come to.
Accountability has been neglected.
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We gain nothing from it,
but everybody loves it!
Media.
Lie to me some more.
Give me what I want.
Truth?
....I never heard of that before...
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"Who will guard the guards?"
I seen it on Charlie Rose!
Does he look like some conspiracy guy?
Isn't there more than even he showed?
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The world has come alive,
there is information that we know.
The internet will set us free,
let it bring truth to our souls

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I hope you seek the light
and always ask questions.

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Remember that your soul guides
you
like a moral compass
in the right direction
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Don't forget your North.
Don't forget your lessons.
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You're a warrior in this world.
*God's greatest blessing.
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/russell_brand_need_to_know_people_are_being_pointlessly_tortured_20141211
 Dec 2014 Metanoia
Amit Shroff
A line across my forehead, reading my past,
Not so much to boast, but will tell a lot.
A bittersweet lot, so much I've lost,
I am no preacher, just a few words I blabber,
Of friends and foes, and fiends and folks.
I'm like a Monday morning, not greeted well,
All I want to tell is  you keep your well.
The closer we are the deeper it hurts,
What you know of pain? When I go ahead.
Its for you I take it, for a better tomorrow I gulp it,
It hurts when I tell, you're better off without me.
A moment's thought can save me,
You can push me off the cliff, or pull me back.
Like I had thought, its good to be game for it all,
I'm game for life, for days with less light.
Emptier than the void, quieter than the deep sea.
 Dec 2014 Metanoia
Chloë Fuller
My father taught me a hundred yoga poses
He told me to stretch myself into the trees until my arms become branches
 Dec 2014 Metanoia
Nickols
When you touched me,
I died a thousand tiny deaths.
Hand up my dress,
I sung for you.
Lips on my flesh,
I danced under you.

I cried your name to the heavens.
My sins, to the skies.
Lain sprawled on my back,
as my body shook ever higher...
Ever tighter.

Stroke the tender, to light the pyre.
Touch the torch, to ignite the fire.
Burning. Burning. Burning.

Let us burn.
Burn in the sweetest fire
known to man.

The pleasures,
The depravity,
The lechery,
The insanity.

An original sin;
but a sin we will
all
eventually
revel
in.
 Dec 2014 Metanoia
Francie Lynch
The girl at the check out
Clutching the chips and dollar
Gives me an ache
Like a warning shot
In my stomach.

The boy keeping up
Behind his brothers
Gives me an ache
Like filling a balloon
To capacity.

The ******* duel-bladed skates
Bundled like the Michelin Man
Pushing a chair
Gives me an ache
Like a rip in my father's heart.

The one on the hall floor
Eating before his locker
As the gang's off to McDonald's
Gives me an ache
Like an airborne ball
As the buzzer sounds.

The one in the corner of the class,
With cuffs pulled down
And a tattooed razor blade
On the back of the neck
Worries me.
We need to pay attention.
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