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Desperation
Ended January 9, 2018 • 4 Entries • Created by MayaSkye
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sandflea68
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Extend Your Hands

I gave her a cup of coffee to warm her soul

“But where is my tomorrow?” she cried.

My jeans dry on tree branches blown

by the wind to dry as do my tears.

My shoes are worn from walking the streets

of desperation, despair and heartless rain.

Reality of living day to day is now my norm

loneliness is my only companion as I strive

to find an open food kitchen or a spare bed.

I have been locked out of life and have no key

I carry all I own on my back as it spills on a trail

of hopelessness and searching for what I have lost

I’m invisible, masked from vision of those who walk by

Stuffing fast food in yawning mouths, leaving crumbs

Why don’t they see me, why don’t they extend hands?

The least little kindness will help me stand once again.

#Challenge #HelpMe @DesperateSouls

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Mavia
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The Gravity of Her Nonreality

It was well half past the glass

when the very last bell sang

and atonal anvils fell

behind the curtain walls where

an eternal debutante

rang her hands and wept encore

having but once crossed her lines

of a thousand ten times with

real passions unmemorized

cast within her own rebuke

as the last tip she would leave

on the understudy's seat

#Desperation #Challenge

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willowBending
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Due

Due

in homeroom

tomorrow

five pages

of math

a social studies

essay

thre pages

on the french revolution

Mom please

just five more

minutes

I've got

to finish

before

tomorrow

and that's

not

very

far

away...

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TimeAtLast
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Desper -air- tion

My body plunged downward.

With no lifesaver to hold on to, I

sank

down

down

down.

I felt my lungs shrivelling

The air was gathering and was begging for a release

that I refused to give.

The muscles in my arms and legs began to twitch

and sting.

All attempts to rise to the surface had been pointless

I just sank

lower

lower

lower

A heavy pressure was then set all over me

Like my own anchor,

I sunk myself

My arms went loose,

And my body went numb

My lips parted and freed its captives-

They escaped above me.

Silver spheres in the light.

The cold dark liquid then trapped me in its strong hold

And I sank

deep

deep

deep

into the blue sea.

#drowning #ocean #poetry #sinking #desperation

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