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Vicki Kralapp Aug 2012
The scarceness of truth and beauty of this life
has ****** me dry of breath
Its ugliness has risen to try our hearts,
filling us with a blackness too awful to utter.

Love and goodness have been banned along with God,
blown away like chaff in the wind.
How many cheeks to turn?
How many cheeks to turn?

Into my soul their blackness creeps
giving voice to the cry within.  
Pack wolves wait for signs of weakness as scarlet billows
cloud the waters of small town America.

Have we forgotten kindness and humanity?  
They’ve been flushed down the toilet of
public education.
All poems are copy written and sole property of Vicki Kralapp.
Nihl Nov 2013
A strange recipe,
There seems a certain scarceness of plan to it all.
A summarized unfairness found to this madness,
Two parts chaos to each one part life and matter in equal balance.
A slight dose of loss and grievance, coupled with a dash of unpleasant discourse
and equal parts discouragement.
Break two hearts and empty them into the emulsion.
They'll be buried in there,
to be forgotten as individuals
and rendered part of the whole.
Dust with the sweetness of love,
loyalty
and fulfilled longing.
And present it all to someone special,
Only to find they don't like the bitter taste.
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If each mans life was a dessert,
mine would be a dark cake, dry as the desert.

N.H.
SpiritHeart67 May 2024
There is Abundance in Solidarity
And Scarceness in
Isolation
Breanna Riddle Dec 2016
No light to be seen
No shimmer or gleam
No sun and no shine
We left it all behind

All alone no love or hope
No more warmth just dark smoke
And no more friends
This must be the end!

No more laughing
Only darkness cracking you
Breaking you down
So you fall to the ground

No more happiness
No more forgiveness
Just the same old quiet scarceness
Just the same old judging silence

Alone and afraid
Dark and unwanted
Never to be loved
But always to be silenced

This is the must...
The things that just happen
For a reason or not
We will all be forgotten
avery Dec 2023
To crave death as I do
To step on glass
To not look both ways
To wonder what lies

A forbidden realm
I see it so clearly,
Waterfalls and light
Elation and love

I wish to be the most at peace
To have what others cannot
To be where I want to without doing what I have to
The journey is what gets me

The exhaustion
The unknown
The versatility of the future
The scarceness of certainty

If not today
Tomorrow
If not then

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