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Despite all the terror, we’ve seen,  Cleaned our hands, while others speak  We dreamed of a better world  Swirling, twirling, killing, and dying Our eyes will forever be opened To the crime that was set aside As our mothers cry, behind closed doors,  Pouring out the ashes of a boy they once adored A Forgotten subject  That we bleed with the intent of being healed Sealed up in caskets, like little puppets Stuff like were magic as we stand there like targets But those aren’t words anymore,  Just noise ever since, my brother died Letters used to bring me joy,  Until I grew up into nothing thought of as a boy The toys they give us, pain, and suffering,  Buffering the idea, that our hands are still clean We cling to love, as if hate was shoved into our faces Running scared, to breathe the air There is no way Ill cut hair
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Sep 7, 2014
Sep 7, 2014 at 11:10 AM UTC
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Despite all the terror, we’ve seen,  Cleaned our hands, while others speak  We dreamed of a better world  Swirling, twirling, killing, and dying Our eyes will forever be opened To the crime that was set aside As our mothers cry, behind closed doors,  Pouring out the ashes of a boy they once adored A Forgotten subject  That we bleed with the intent of being healed Sealed up in caskets, like little puppets Stuff like were magic as we stand there like targets But those aren’t words anymore,  Just noise ever since, my brother died Letters used to bring me joy,  Until I grew up into nothing thought of as a boy The toys they give us, pain, and suffering,  Buffering the idea, that our hands are still clean We cling to love, as if hate was shoved into our faces Running scared, to breathe the air There is no way Ill cut hair
I wrote this poem while I was in the musical "Hair", a musical which was set in the 60s during Vietnam, where everyday was a mystery. You didn't know whether to hide or fight. It was very scary time.
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Sep 7, 2014
Sep 7, 2014 at 11:10 AM UTC
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