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Hurricane Road

Those dingy streets are filled, with lost souls forgotten. Their hopes have long faded, and each dream lies rotten. Each life holds a story, that will never be told. Among the crumbling shacks, down on Hurricane Road. There’s things they will teach you, like anger and stealing. To make a few more bucks, you’ll cut what you’re dealing. Can’t care ‘bout your neighbor, when you’re making a buck. You hold on with both hands, there’s no such thing as luck. In this dark place so filled, with anger and sadness. One thing remains certain, on these streets of madness. Life is just a trinket, that can be bought and sold. Behind these crumbling shacks, down on Hurricane Road. Even the best silver, can tarnish when it’s old. As will the crumbling lives, down on Hurricane Road.

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Date: 9/25/2023 1:51:00 AM
your poem, is marvellous, i think, by the social observation, it provide, there are lost souls, most people don't care, we should do, thanks fo recalling this precious "vérité", so welle written for me, thanks poet
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Jerry Brotherton
Date: 9/25/2023 8:38:00 AM
Thanks Yann, discontentment breeds evil.
Date: 9/25/2023 1:37:00 AM
Jerry, you deserve great praise for this poem dealing with all aspects of life, but mainly the ugly side of it. Well done
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Jerry Brotherton
Date: 9/25/2023 8:43:00 AM
Thank you, Victor. I think we are all born with the potential for good or evil. It is the hope of something better that drives most of us. If we lose hope we can no longer see the beauty.
Date: 9/25/2023 12:05:00 AM
Hi Jerry! This, my friend, is extremely well written. You depict the dire situation so, so well. Does this road exist or is it fiction? The first stanza is so poignant,’with lost souls forgotten’. I love the line, ‘Life is just a trinket’.The last stanza again is poignant. When you read something like this, it gives a clear, powerful message/ reminder of how lucky and blessed we are not to have a life like that to endure. Poor unfortunate, forgotten souls. Really enjoyed it.
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Jerry Brotherton
Date: 9/25/2023 8:47:00 AM
Thanks, Christina. It is a work of fiction but drawn from reality. Hurricane Road is a place where all hope of anything better is gone. There are millions of people in the world living on Hurricane Road.
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Christina Bowring
Date: 9/25/2023 12:06:00 AM
Thank you for sharing. Have a blessed week :):)

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