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by Andrew Crisci Bitter tears drip from my red pupils like incandescent, hot lava erupting from a volcano to appease the urges of weeping; and do I mourn for myself, or for the poor, innocent, persecuted, misunderstood and unloved? Will this cry of injustice change anything? Will the oppressor be softened by them or remain vile? It's very rare that pretentiousness turns into consciousness, revealing all the faults that make one a persona ingrata; why is human pride such a tempting desire to own everything, to destroy what was built with stamina leaving no footprints? What will be said about an era which did not prosper and shine? Who will write the testimony books, if not those inspired? Take the written word away, and the darkness will definetely return! Dante and Shakespeare did their part in divulging it: you do yours! Yesterday's world was a menacing shadow oblitering all knowledge; the masses were ignorant, but some fervently sought education through the favor of Kings and Queens, not ignoring the urges of weeping that came from poverty and unvoiced thoughts that couldn't be expressed; yes, the above-mentioned Rainassance poets did succeed in their quest! What disturbs me is the absence of fairness and equality in our times, even murderers can be acquitted for reason of insanity..they take a life so sacred and useful in scopes beyond comphrension and imagination; how wratful God must be over the decision of a lenient, or corrupt judge! And what outrages me is the heartlessness of mothers that want obortion, or leave the new-borns in trash bins, or on sidewalks...not even on a church's steps to be spotted by passerbys who will come to their rescue; and sadly they will die without knowing the urges of weeping as we do. How cruel and lawless is Man ruling the earth without the concept of humaness! And what does He care if they live in squallor and are denied happiness? All He desires is riches, admiration and comfort over the urges of weeping! Entered in Michael J. Falotico's contest, " Sounds Of A Cry "
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