Loss Pride Poems

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He cleaned his gun
Polishing the anger with disdain
Caring nothing for the life
Taken and the one that remains
...unforgiven

She cries for her loss
Always dragging her cross
All over...

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She watches with loving eyes,
As her child grows and thrives.
Her heart swells with pride,
With every achievement by her side.

From the first smile and step,
To graduation...

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Once common sense was our pride and our joy
  Why did we set out to have it destroyed
    Over bathrooms we...

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For the day had come
that the daughter of one,
now the cost of her love
mothers youngest born son,
would declare her unfit 
as a parent and mother
for...

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Buy now, pay later,
Rent to own today.
Put it on your card,
That's the American way.

A nation plagued with debt,
A people bound with chains.
The majority feel the...

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No man nor beast can survive,
In a climate meant to deprive.
Barren of hope and loss of scope,
Where no one gets out alive.

Seeking a place to...

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Who cheats himself of
  even bitter tears of defeat
    ~ on self-image clicks delete...

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CURTAINS ARE DRAWN

Curtains are drawn yesterday,
A hushed silence, floating in the room's 
Empty space,
Thoughts remain unspoken,

A group of people in shock, following 
Procedure like clockwork,...

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We choose what we think is worth dying for 
on the quest of a hill for our cross.
Worth more to us than our very own...

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Happiness for Sale?

‘Twas happiness I thought money could buy
‘Till its very essence led me to cry,
For using my fortune to gamble and play,
Penniless, I am...

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Victory to the women who’ve survived
Desertion, divorce and all that jive
If your name is still Thompson, after fifty years.
Maybe longer through drought, doubt and tears
Do...

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Need to get back to my feet, find my way home
put down this heavy rifle, seek grace.. 
a familiar voice, a kind face, 
hope for...

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That’s all I have left of her,
Ill health first came to mar, 
It made its journey like on tar,
Sadness and grief mixed in a jar.

Far...

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Can any fonder love myself endure
Than self-regard bestowed upon a name,
Or for the cause of unrelenting fame
Become a thing unpleasant to inure
Myself, I think it...

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