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Weep When will you cry? Will you cry when they kill all your dreams or when the sun stops setting? Or when you cannot have kids, or when they cancel your wedding? Will it bring you to tears when there's another 911 or you get a bill from your overseers that makes you feel forlorn; Or when they whisper softly" there's something wrong with your newborn" Then will you cry? Will you cry when the poison from the food kills your body’s natural protection, and leaves you no longer immune? That is around the corner waiting and will be here soon; Doctors with "C" averages, taking out your body parts; Will you weep then? What will make you cry, what does it take to make you stand: Misdiagnosis? You are not exempt. Missing children or grandchildren, babies without bottles, missing; Vacuuming pedophiles body parts! When will you get sick of this manure? What will make you fight these horrors back? It happens to Jill and It happens to Jack... Perhaps you don't want to fight, perhaps You think it only happens to blacks, or browns, or poor whites; No, you don't want to fight, you feel exempt; But there's a tear out there waiting, it has your fingerprint! So keep on thinking it can’t happen to you nothing can affect you, you have it all sorted out, and life is not fair, but we are breathing the same air! So, if you think these conditions will only affect others; And you have your paper money tucked safely in the bank, you live in a different world.... so, you think! Again, I ask; What will make you fight, what will make you cry, When things come to the light... when things to the light? Your safety net has holes in it, you are slipping through the cracks, paper money is torn worthless, dried up trees! Life for others is not fair, your luck is running scarred; We are breathing the same air! When the lights come on There is nothing more to see, you knock but can't get in; Your names first on the list. Your money was not that long; The Kidney that you needed, went to one who had much more! Now you die from waiting, it is so aspirating, the playing fields not even; But now it is too late, you can no longer wait.... So, you Die.... And so, you Die!

Copyright © | Year Posted 2010




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Date: 7/11/2015 2:43:00 AM
Vicki:) Congratulations on having your poem featured on the soups, Home Page. ~SKAT LOVE~
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Date: 7/9/2015 9:02:00 AM
Vicki, congratulations on having this beautifully penned poem selected as a Feature Poem for the week, enjoy the honor
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Date: 7/8/2015 2:20:00 PM
Amazing Write vicki , very deep and inspiring, worth reading more than once , Life is life always something on the corner , no one knows in which percent of people they are at you may be feeling lucky but with a snap it's all a trap and we can cry ... natural is death and we cannot avoid it but live ... -Rosie :)
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Date: 10/19/2013 7:23:00 PM
Your writing reminds me a bit of my friend Vicki Tsilumi. That is a real compliment because her poems deeply move me. If you have a chance read my poems Girl Rising and the sequel Boy Sitting. I would love to hear your thoughts on them.
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Date: 10/6/2010 5:44:00 AM
Vicki another great poem ... only thing again ?I feel your format detracts from the poem ... some great lines here that need to stand on their own ... you have a raw ability that with a little work has potential hope you dont mind and if you dont agree ignore me others do lol ;) love Jayne
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Date: 9/24/2010 6:02:00 PM
Life is not fair but Praise God there is going to be that eternal life that will be fair because God with His Son Jesus will rule and reign...But maybe you can start a landslide that rights some of these wrongs now while we are here on earth..Sara
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Date: 9/24/2010 3:40:00 AM
Very creative and nice narrative on weep, Vicki
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