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Life line

stab push lift pour

 

stab push lift pour

 

a ghost of memories past

 

a small boy no older than 12

 

he had curly black hair just like mine

 

he had brown eyes just like mine

 

he looked just like me

 

but thats because he had a last name ... just like mine

 

this was no tragic accident

 

but a carefully crafted punishment of a young boys mind

 

and the piece by piece fragmentation of his soul

 

every hurtful word, every disgusted look, every should turned

 

slowly braided itself together to form a string of ideas

 

every moment of hurt, every memory of pain, every day of neglect

 

slowly looped itself around him and knotted everything together

 

as if it was a gift of a ticking time bomb, wrapped in images you wish to forget, topped off with a bow of stripped and flattened emotions , signed with a card that simply says ... **** yourself

 

they say no one is responsible for his death, and the kids who teased him said " I was just joking"

 

well here's the punch line, i wonder which one of you ran through his mind when he finally kicked the chair out from underneath him

 

he stepped up on that chair with his final words that should be as historical as "four scores and severn years ago" or as revolutionary as "I HAVE A DREAM"

 

and hearing his last cries would be like hearing a nuclear warning siren... a scream of an inevitable end

 

and walking in and seeing his body hanging there like a forgotten halloween decoration was as sickening and heart breaking as seeing a ******** painted in a synagogue

 

i still keep his noose and i keep it mounted on the front door like a wreath , as if to say

 

HANG YOUR PRIDE AND OFFER A HELPING HAND BECUASE IT COULD BE THE LIFE LINE SOMEONE NEEDS

 

please , from a father left incomplete because they are burying a part of me

 

stab push lift pour

 

stab push lift pour

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Jul 26, 2014
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