Sad Sheep Poems

In the dimly lit corners of her existence,
She lingered, a ghost in the midst of persistence.
From the womb, she was marked, a black sheep born,
Destined...

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Charcoal Sheep

Watery eyed thoughts came,
Zap! Pow!  a short circuited brain.
Inward turned burned ocular pain,
too many thoughts to restrain 
I’m a cheap sheep making my...

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My eyes can't believe what I am seeing,
My ears can't believe what they are hearing,
I have no words for those naive beings, 
And my hearts...

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He was the weird one, the odd one, the one the family laughed about.
He heard them laughing, and it hurt when he was a boy.
By...

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How many smiles have you faked today? 
Everyone's been telling their sad story,
But not even one is ready to listen to 
What you have to...

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I will minister to my neighbor
I am the Lord’s instrument to minister to my neighbor
I will succor them that stand in need of my succor
Help...

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For years I wore
your shame as my own
and lived unknown
in terror of being seen
like a leper
self-quarantined
intrinsically unclean

Your neglect
became to me
my insignificance
undeserving of your glance

Your abuse
became...

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Haven’t you had a look?
I am such a flawed character in your book.
My mind goes mad as I sit and wait
Drowning in all this fragmented...

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Baa baa black sheep
No one listens to you
You see the truth
No one else sees
You hear the cries
The screams and the pleas
But why why black sheep
Do...

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My sheep go “Baa, Baa, Baa”
My sheep go “Baa, Baa, Baa”
My sheep go “Baa, Baa, Baa, Baa, Baa”

Farm country’s quite a place
Greener space and friendly...

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I didn't realize how hard it'd be
To sit here where I am
Listening to words I used to love;
Now being the wolf among you lambs
In my...

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Pushed aside, location of home obscured, limited by isolation:
drifting aimlessly - subscribing to a voluntary incarceration.

Outcast by an alternative perspective, a differing sense of direction,
through...

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