Best Necessary Evil Poems

take this blade 
and cut your wrists
make escape holes for the devil

let him leave you
through the bleeding
make the world then somewhat level

it's a sacrifice 
most unholy
but for the good of all mankind

so take thy soul
unto the slaughter
and you'll find i'm right in time

sure i'm just...

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Have you never tasted hunger
Tread the alleys with the stealthy
Cried the tears of someone younger
While you dined among the wealthy
Shuffled through the papers
Through the pages of despair
Embittered by the capers
Neglect, hanging in the air
Step with me through the sadness
Let me open up your eyes
Weave, careful...

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clangor
repeating noise
echoing in my head
raucous alarm awakens me
bringing back turbulent reality
stirring anger and resentment
strident, clamorous noise, 
starting day of
clangor

By: Joyce Johnson 5/28/12

For "Sound of Emotion" Contest...

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GENOCIDE: A NECESSARY EVIL

When the East caught fire
Deafened by the noise of their own sun
They said healing was natural
Because Ojukwu was their son
Bitter leaves spread over Umuahia
In numbers that could set the world ablaze

If you found love in Kano
It must have fallen from a bird...

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Evil combs from their waists morally
Like a song from dead throaty tune.
Machete of tempting guts, they spread
Nagging substances to the eyes of men,
This thistles taxed our brave minds.
Our blood a gulp of water to their veins,
Scars for the flesh of our successful life.
war wounds for...

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Necessary Evil

Cold and calculating, it thrives
On increasing dependency and knows
It will own you and your very lives
The more you love it, the less it shows

Use it for you and you will be used
Save it, building up false hopes
Abuse it and you will be abused
It has...

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I often moan about my job,
a certain colleague, and my boss -
I wish I didn't have to go
to work (I wouldn't mourn its loss).

Without a job I'd be quite skint;
it puts the money in the bank -
I think of that and carry on
(unsure of what...

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Politicians, a necessary evil: 
you can't live with them…
and they won't let you live without them. 

I finally realized why some of our 
best actors are so dis-likable off screen -- 
I think it is self realization, 
and a desperate need to escape...

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My words have traveled
into the valley of
the rendered Caesars.


I have turned my back on my
own words because of rejection.
Peace,since, has never been
found.


Being silenced is neither a gift
nor blessing.....
it's being a human less state of breath.

when all is chore,it is the betrayal 
one seeks.
for the plight...

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