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Flowers In the Concrete

Innocence lost, virgin hearts often get paved over by oppression gravel pressure Hardened thoughts laid cover the privileged lily eyes, and the tulip pupils of those in poverty Unjust limestone mixture is hereditary poured into chromatic fields of vexation Pretty flowers of childhood purity rarely get the adolescent chance to maturity see the petal blossoming of their rainbow dreams Buried under hateful concrete, their survival stem still did with tender ease lovingly rose Asphalt desires ugly ... Purloin dotted lines couldn’t smother their unmarred souls Beautiful flowers always will grow between the stony cracks in the concrete Pollen truth blown make it cement so, even as the tilted mortar ground hardens more

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Date: 6/20/2019 1:46:00 PM
Creatively written and powerful as usual. Well done Freddie! :)
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