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Belshazzar - the Doomsayer's Dirge

I feel Disturbed with the callous call to arms for vested gains and rhetorical rants of raving men ostentatiously out to save your souls having pledged theirs to Lucifier's lien. I see the city ablaze with dreams of the denizens on the street as they mindlessly move to put their minds in front of soulless screens churning out code for what they know not. I wish I would, I wish I could shout at the ostriches all around who hear the screams and shut them out pretending they do not exist. What God's of Darkness do we pray to at temples of modern doom? The Simon and Garfunkelian tune finds vent as a doomsayer's dirge. And I am suitably disturbed. ~11 May 2016~ Contest Judged: 5/14/2016 6:42:00 AM Lyrics cliché image - Poetry Contest - sponsored bt Silent One 1. Lyric - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Dg-g7t2l4 Disturbed - sound of silence. (an amazing version) 2. Cliche - The Writing on the Wall 3. Picture #5 Placed 2nd

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Date: 5/14/2016 11:45:00 AM
congratulations on your win with this awesome free verse . . .
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Karam Misra
Date: 5/14/2016 10:02:00 PM
Thank you, Broken. ~karam~

Book: Shattered Sighs