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 Sep 2015 Adam Childs
Poetic T
I held your hand you gripped it hard
Wishing the pain would pass quietly
A tear fell and I wiped it slowly clear.

You were silent, mumbled thoughts
Worded in you eyes like a lighthouse
Every unspoken word was seen.

I stuck in the  knife one last time then silence.
 Sep 2015 Adam Childs
RH 78
Why is there a little boy lying on the beach?
Washed up.
Lifeless.
All for a new life too far to reach?

Why is there a little boy lying on the beach?
Terrorists
Heartless.
What happened to the human rights we all preach?

Why is there a little boy lying on the beach?
Traffickers.
Gangs.
Displacing people no home and no speech.

Why is there a little boy lying on the beach?
A son.
No future.
We hang our heads and weep!
Broken hearted and deeply affected by pictures I saw in the news depicting the lifeless body of a little boy no older than three who was photographed washed up on the shore line of Turkey. The result of further illegal human smuggling, people trafficking promising to get families to Europe on a false promise. All too often, people are put into small boats unable to sustain the weight of all the people put upon it and not fit for purpose. This is yet another shocking event in the wake of atrocities taking place in North Africa where the displacement of millions of innocent people continues. Governments are too busy counting the pennies and quarrelling amongst themselves in addition to wasting precious time as gangs and smugglers take advantage of the situation by sending people to their death profiting from the desperation of families searching for a place to call home. When will this end? RIP to the little boy, his brother and mother who all perished.
 Sep 2015 Adam Childs
Sjr1000
smoking his "peace pipe",
Pontificating about
this and that,
he doesn't know a *******
thing,
but he has an opinion about
everything,
always certain
seldom right,
you'd be glad
you're not
his kid or his wife.

The old guy with the peace
pipe,
don't ask him anything,
he'll tell you about
everything.

You're ****** if you do,
you're ****** if you don't,
better go elsewhere
while the getting is good.

There are details you
don't want to even know,
you don't gotta love 'em,
they don't love you.

But when you're looking
in his eyes while he's
smoking his pipe,
you just know
in your heart
it's going to
be alright.
The shaman on his way revisited, he was in a mood today.
~~~(♥)~~~


all is not lost

only




MISPLACED


soulsurvivor
(C) 9/5/2015
For those who need hope
in people
in the world

in
LIFE
Mad Mark fancied
Maddie was in love with him
though he had seen her in the park
with Parker madly kissing her
saw her giggling
when Job jabbed her ribs
found her in tight embrace
of Mr. M. Brace
and saw the Schneider's butler
pinching her ****
and once chanced upon her legs sticking out
from a bush in Mr. Bush's villa.

Mad Mark was still not deterred
from fancying
Maddie was in love with him.
 Aug 2015 Adam Childs
Asim Javid
she was a marionette of the echoes
of her past
corrupting her present.
She was fluctuating betwixt
the anguish of the antecedent and
invariable  sanctity.
She was apostle of the present
but
She worshipped her past
 Aug 2015 Adam Childs
Poetic T
It was that moment when I slept
Upon the darkness and dream,
Night
Light
Ward
Them away keep me safe, I would
Say this every night,
I would speak these words everyday.
For the words not spoken
The words speak unchecked in the darkness

"Child sleep well,
"Child dream silent,
"Never to awaken again,

Suffocated in the night,
I was only seven years old,
Then I rolled and my night light caught
Upon the shadows feeding on the walls
I breathed I inhaled light that night.
Never again would my sleep slumber in
Nightfall,
Darkness,
Twilight
Was their time to plunder upon the unsuspecting
For with eyes sealed to that which
Festers in the shadow.
I lie in the tomb of obscurity,
Lighting the beacon that my dreams search for,
Voices still speak in those moments between
Light
Darkness
Obscurity

"No longer child,
"No longer innocent,
"We will consume you upon lights fall,

I sleep in darkness but every night their voices
Pierced into my subconscious

"Light is life,
"Darkness is death,
"Never shall I ever awake,

I revise this with every night fall,
They may try to feast on my fears in those
Moments of twilight.
But I will always sleep restless motions,
Always  will  I slumber safe in the light.
as i drew the curtains
felt a crawl on my hand
that fell on the bed as i ******.

then saw the other of the pair.

i shoved the duo out of the bed
hoping they won't land so far
as to not find again one another.

past my initial reaction
i felt ashamed of the stupid act
and remorse,

for having wasted the time
it took them to be close.
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