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Awareness

Just who the hell

 

Do you think you are?

 

In your house that is so

 

Twee

 

Just who the hell

 

Do you think you are?

 

 

YOU

 

are

 

NO

 

more different than

 

ME

 

 

Just because

 

You have a car

 

Just because

 

Your old man works

 

YOU

 

think that these entitle

 

YOU

 

To all those extra perks!

 

WELL

 

**** YOU ALL

 

**** YOUR WAYS

THE TIME HAS COME TO RE-APPRAISE

 

~

I am angry you were nasty

I am angry you were cruel

 

Surprised

 

YOU

 

didn’t march us

 

to the

 

***** Ducking Stool

 

 

And what exactly was the crime?

 

In the safety of your home?

 

Were there far too many children?

 

With a natural freedom born to roam?

 

 

Did not one of you ever stop to think?

 

What went on behind

 

Closed doors?

 

Or were

 

YOU

 

Indignantly repulsed?

 

Fervently abhorred?

 

 

Well … Let me tell you for nothing

 

My father was a ****

 

Yet

 

YOU

 

hid

 

behind your curtains

 

Surely

 

WE

 

were

 

WORTH A PUNT?

 

 

I even fulfilled your small town prophecy

 

When I learnt to rob and steal

 

It was never about the money

 

It was only ever about the thrill

 

 

Seven little vagabonds

 

Seven little ***** of sin

 

 

“Be careful where you step my sweet”

 

“For, they do not hold our Lord within”

 

 

Mr Roberts …

 

“How dare you walk these streets?

 

Glowing with civic pride

 

Did you not know your

 

wife’s back home with her pumpkin leg’s spread open wide!

 

Oh…. Yes … your brother was often a frequent guest

 

While you brown nosed

 

on your

 

Monetary quest”

 

 

Mrs Philips …

 

“Hubby … taking the boys to camp again?

 

He sure likes to drill them hard

 

Does he make you take it up the ****

 

Does he leave

 

YOU

 

His

 

CALLING CARD?

 

 

I could go on … with tales of pain

I could go on … with tales of woe

 

But

 

That is

 

NOT

 

MY PURPOSE

 

For it was so very long ago

 

I just want to make you realise the pain left in those children’s hearts

 

They really were so much more

Than

the

Sum of all their parts

 

So next time you cast aspersions

With

your

Judgemental eyes

 

Remember

 

Each time the knife’s stuck in

 

**A

 

Little piece of that child dies …**

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Nov 13, 2010
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