Confusion Poverty Poems

Written: December 12, 2023, For Shadow Hamilton Contest
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People can only thrive on this...

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You hurt, poverty, but i don't hate you
You have mental illness, and misery and pain are your diagnosis 
You're an issue in life! unbearable in...

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Please stop sharing memes promoting hatred or flaring communal violence. 
Do not revile anyone. Instead, observe silence. 
Crimes against humanity transcend the boundaries of religion,...

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Without a fair means to endure
Inflation puts some in the sewer
The Fed might raise rates
Until it abates
But their record makes us unsure...

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How would it feel if you've to breath your last in fire?
Everything your heart loves, be cast; aghast! in fire!

Living can't see afterlife which weakens...

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Welcome, to my country.
      Where we experienced load shedding.
      No Wi-Fi, petrol sky high.
 ...

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“Wrongs”
A million feet marching
A million feet bleeding
A million feet searching

Marching for life
Bleeding from war
Searching for beds

What is this for?
They have nothing left
Why did they lose?...

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I know I promised
 no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another 
‘Wipe your eye poem’

 And for three years 
I tried...

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How is it viable that life could alter the course,
from people to people? 
What makes you quiver in the middle of the night 
to play...

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I
You will not be flying very far for the rest of 2020
Say goodbye to globe-trotting entitlements
The airlines are flummoxed: they need you; you need plenty
Of...

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My current days are trails paved abhorrent
for I wail money twisted and time blistered
within knot plots I cannot get untwistered.
I live as a searcher of...

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Like the wind, 
the rain, 
the storm goes on. 
There is no end that one man can see. 

Have hope, 
don’t fear, 
that is what...

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hell in heaven
man made world 
still remain polluted
when the hunger 
of control remains
the ultimate goal 
they need to see us 
all the time 
so we...

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I've looked for poverty everywhere
and still I see their money.
Their cheques being sent to politicians-
the land of milk and honey.

And when I go to need...

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Dear people, 
    (Am i?) Mad it’s a conformist state?
A status that perpetuates people to pair, to compare, to prepare, 
to perfect,...

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