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Dignity

Tell your gods we call for blood

We're stirring hurricanes in your teacups.

It's an instant headache cure at the end of a barrel,

Though a worthwhile gauntlet to continue to breathe.

 

We’re stirring hurricanes in your teacups

It might be easier to crash and burn.

Though a worthwhile gauntlet to continue to breathe,

We should never measure our breaths to our steps

 

It might be easier to crash and burn.

Children die from the painful things they learn.

We should never measure our breaths to our steps,

But the dignity in life is too beautiful to regret.

 

Children die from the painful things they learn

It’s an instant headache cure at the end of a barrel

But the dignity in life is too beautiful to regret.

Tell your gods we call for blood

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Written by
arlene-bozich
Published
Jul 20, 2012
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My attempt at a pantoum. Trying a new form of poetry each time I write now!

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