What do you do with a heavy heart?
As it is thrown to sea and slowly drifts apart
What do you do with a terrified tear?
As it fills with sorrow and frivolous fear
What do you do with a shattered smile?
When it is marooned on an isolated Isle
What do you do with a skeletal soul?
As it is condemned to a hellish hole
What do you do with an egregious Earth?
Decadently decaying as it loses its mirth
They gather within the dumpsters of the deep
As they stare back and woundingly weep.
July.18.2016
Garbage - Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Anthony Slausen
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