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Dirty Child's Dime

I know the blame and the shame,
like a dirty picked up dime
forgetting its once shiny place
and a instrument that paves
I'm now the fresh concrete,
you all walk over,
as teens scribble love graffiti,
and ripped of 4 leaf clovers
of innocents once believing....
Gets caught up in the cracks,
kids need to hop and skip over,
to avoid my dire of bad luck.

Make way for the catholic priests
Wolves ushering in all the children
don't slip in the rain on your back
as ignorance doesn't pick up the slack,
I hate the way you engraved our initials
Never ably with purple  petals.....

Copyright © Ryan Geoffrey Hayward | Year Posted 2025

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Candide Diderot Date: 8/23/2025 3:51:00 AM Kind of reminds me of the Australian grafitti artist whose soul message was "Eternity". Beautifully written poem dripping with empathy. Login to Reply Ryan Geoffrey Hayward Date: 8/26/2025 9:37:00 PM Thank-you for the excellent feedback on this. Ryan Geoffrey Hayward Date: 8/23/2025 7:40:00 AM I think its obvious why the age of consent in their Empire was 12 for so long. Down the road from me was a Japanese Catholic Priest who was very popular. He was always nice to me as I walked past, walking my dog and didn't had that look about him that I have easily picked up with others. Anyway, it turned out, he was sexually abusing a girl from the age of 7 to 13 and when her mother found out, he literally took a samurai sword out and you can guess the rest to himself. The detectives said, he certainly wanted to suffer. And now we have a US President....... Well, such is life.. Candide Diderot Date: 8/23/2025 3:57:00 AM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Stace Candide Diderot Date: 8/23/2025 3:51:00 AM "Make way for the catholic priests Wolves ushering in all the children..." on another note, may those a'hls rot in Hell for all Eternity. "The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse"...many still hiding under cassocks and their rocks.

John Fleming Date: 8/21/2025 12:03:00 PM Another powerful and gritty piece of writing, Ryan. Good stuff! :) john Login to Reply

Sara Etgen-Baker Date: 8/20/2025 4:42:00 PM Engaging words that spoke to me: I know the blame and the shame, like a dirty picked up dime forgetting its once shiny place and a instrument that paves I'm now the fresh concrete, you all walk over, Love and appreciate your poetic voice. Wishing you a splendid evening, Sara Login to Reply