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Blood Diamonds

by dedpoet

She snaps a picture: They shine like blood diamonds, A million come, A million gone, Lost in the individual masses, A sea of black faces With suffering in the eyes. Displaced for rocks, Displayed as a photo In a page, In a doctor's office And the white man shakes his head. His name is called, And the magazine will stay for years, Just a photo with no memory.
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Written by
dedpoet
38 / M
Published
Mar 22, 2016
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1m
Notes

To those still suffering genocide in Africa, those suffering in masses, we ignore the truth like a magazine visited.

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