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Brain Dead

September 29, 2015
By RainWriter GOLD, Rochester, New York
RainWriter GOLD, Rochester, New York
12 articles 10 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
"If not me, who? If not now, when?" -Emma Watson, Gender Equality is Your Issue Too, Speech at the United Nations


There is not a birth every second,
Nor is there a death.
But every second a person is mourning.
A sould has died
And with it an era.
One of happiness and prosperity
Now of anger and poverty.
A mother cries.
A death has not yet occured,
Another of us is dead.

 

Somewhere over the rainbow, I party on.



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on Jan. 3 2016 at 10:16 am
RainWriter GOLD, Rochester, New York
12 articles 10 photos 9 comments

Favorite Quote:
"If not me, who? If not now, when?" -Emma Watson, Gender Equality is Your Issue Too, Speech at the United Nations

@Hanban12 thank you! Reading your comment made my day, I'm so glad you liked the poem!

Hanban12 ELITE said...
on Jan. 1 2016 at 11:38 pm
Hanban12 ELITE, Lake Worth, Florida
133 articles 7 photos 631 comments

Favorite Quote:
"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them."
Henry David Thoreau

"I fell in love the way you fall asleep; slowly, and then all at once."
John Green

I love the stark contrast between the last line and the rest of the poem. I can look at it in so many different ways and interpret it in different lightings and I just love it. Keep writing! :)