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I worked hard for
Everything I got
And didn’t get.

I’ve been cheated
By evil hands
And friendly ones
With their fingers crossed.

I looked for love
And found mostly
*** and degradation.

I reached for God
But my fingers
Were too slippery.
ljm
I think I may have already posted this.  If so, sorry.
 Nov 2021
Walter W Hoelbling
a slanted morning sun
   warming my back
makes my huge shadow
walk so far ahead of me

trying to catch up with it
I feel small
fall sun shadow small
 Nov 2021
Dhaval Naik
Broken, shattered from inside
crushed into million parts
My heart cries
Smiling outside
Depressed inside
With every moment that pass
A part of me dies
No friends to talk
No relatives to call
Getting tough from everywhere
But still hanging in there,
A part of me dies,
Still I choose to fight.
 Nov 2021
Irving MacPherson
At the barroom playing darts
it's all fun and games until
someone loses an eye

Sitting in the executive boardroom
it's all fun and games until
someone loosens a tie
Joe King
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