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Hello, Goodbye

Hello world 
I’d like you to go away now 
You’re a little too bright 
And not enough wonderful 

Give me a second 
To adjust to the blinding 
Hazard signs 
Flashing in corners of 
Unmarked alleys 
Where shadows dance 
Hand in hand 
With Greed 

Let me adjust to the 
Gloomy speckles of 
Fading starlight 
As forgotten souls 
Burn out - out of 
View from the rest of 
The Universe

Give me a minute
To wrap my newborn mind 
Around the fact 
That you use children 
For pleasure 
Let me learn that 
Abusers deserve compassion 
More than a family deserves food 

Goodbye world 
I forgot that you cared more about 
Money’s birth than mine 
He got a better welcome 
And a throne to crawl into

Copyright © Laney McDonald | Year Posted 2026

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