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Betraying Is What She Is Called To Do

She hides her face in the darkness She doesn’t dare go near the crowd Her face would be disowned Her only friend is the betrayal cloud The one that reminds her of what she did Of how she can never go back to the life that she had Reminds her how everyone knows or how she thinks they do Reminds her of the pain that she brought upon herself that can never be taken away She thinks other people know But they don’t She hides herself So they won’t She reminds herself not to take a step away from the darkness She reminds herself that she has nowhere to go She had a family not anymore Her betrayal kicked her right out the door Her betrayal is not of the usual sort But of the dark kind Where people report She hides herself so no one will know That little Susie was the one Who not only betrayed her family by leaving them Because of the way everyone was always violent and drunk But she killed them too Now little miss Susie Of the age eight Was known to be a cheerful girl In each little blonde curl But in her heart was a black heart That hated everything Everything that was violent and drunk So she feels she has to kill them because no one else will So her betrayal if you will Is her duty She lives to do it To kill the evil And if it means betraying her life of what seemed like joy That she wanted to have To at least pretend like she was happy She’ll give it up for doing her duty Betrayal is her name Betrayal is her job Betraying is what she is called to do

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010




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Date: 2/7/2010 8:37:00 AM
A very imaginative probe of the psyche ... a wonderful write. Welcome to poetry soup, it is a world of friends and poets, but it also a human world where we find support for human feelings ... I pray I may count on you for such a friendship. One love
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