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One rule for me
His eyes were darkly darting, as he surveyed from high. The ivory tower that chained the poor and the care workers to queues at a local food bank. ——————- He groaned as the media attacked him. He moaned behind the bricks at us while smiling thinly, and showing us whitened teeth, which have been polished…
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Eating to die?
I stared at the biscuit box, the chocolate, crisps, empty cases and a loaf? just bread crumbs, and wept. I cried for the pain that I was trying to suppress, the old hurts that oppressed. ——————— and I knew that I was heavy and hopeless, I would have to go through this again, and again,…
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It’s the Kids.
The child lay at peace her eyes closed and her long dark lashes fanned her gaunt cheeks. Each breath taken an effort and each heart beat slowing as her life seeps slowly from her shrinking soul. ———————– Another child lies asleep on a soft mattress and pillows both at the mercy of bullying braggarts and…
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The Tory’s Party
Oh, God! it is bad. They’ve screwed us over and over again, each time they speak it is with a fancy forked tongue, tracing a journey through their choices and our deaths. ———————– Oh, Lord! it is grim, I’m on m knees and weeping, because my kith are hurting sore and the NHS, the guardian…
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Spring Death
The sun caught the shy violet, shedding light on them, as they appeared like sapphires in the grass and gorse and gave joy to the slow journeying. ————- They smiled at the swift, flying swallow retuned to a cold and frightened land, as it dipped and darted, diving for flies while the fearing folk stayed…
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Isolating Pain
Her clothes felt heavy and her shoes lead lined, like in a nightmare when you run and run and you just can’t get anywhere. ——————– Her arm hung heavily at her side as big bruises surfaced in darkening black and blue her torn lip, a tortured broken face. ——————————– She was at her prison door…
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Isolating Hell.
She breathed onto the window, and stared as the steam smeared her view, slowly dissolving to droplets dawdling down the pane and puddling. ————————– Her eyes were stretched. She shook from the horror of knowing, that he was here all day, all night by order of the British government. —————————– A Pandora’s box opened by…
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Be prepared.
We are running and rushing towards an abyss of blockbuster proportions, no one is fully facing to be properly prepared for what may be. We shoot off our stinking guns and starve children, we battle for land and barter the lives of our brethren, while, waiting a virus wrests from us our…
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The Caress of Nature
I sat beneath the boughs of the cherry blossom and felt its touch as light as a doves feather, it drifted down and traced its path down my cheek, and lay for a moment embracing me with a ———————- sweetness of a caress that called to me to become as light, reaching out with the…
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Death in the dark.
It happened in the night as the golden owl glided by and the scuttling of tiny mice scrabbling in the earth for food. ——————– The flowers slept and the trees were quiet. The swollen stream washed their roots and the rain rolled down in rippling rivulets. ———————— The silent drifting by of a fox, its…
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