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life 2 min read 426 views Nov 6, 2014

Same Book Different Chapter

I can see it everyday,
The nonsense
The violence
The Shaytan’s whispers, the voice of my conscience
And the tears that she cries goes unnoticed 
And the morning after?
Same book different chapter
As you look upon her face and see the results of your rapture
Or the wrath that you poured as if you were her god.
And your hands kept beating down on her didn’t care that she cried 
As you pushed away her son 
, he wasn’t your child
Another day
As the street lights flicker 
On the face of a child neglected 
Mother left bitter
Left the kids in the house
couldn’t pay for a sitter
Left the kerosene burning 
No heat in the winter
And as the smoke cleared 
And she realized her worst fears
Salvaged a picture of her children
8 months and 3 years
Same book different chapter 
Silence the morning after 
Like the Sunday morning guilt of the adulterous pastor
Preaching lies to a church filled with hypocritical laughter
Passing that basket around 3 times
Preaching greed’s a deadly sin
didn’t really believe in the words that you scribbled with that pen
Waiting for the hereafter?
Same book different chapter 
The nonsense 
The violence 
The voice of my conscience
The Shaytan’s calls 
These 4 white walls 
Closing
These actors keep posing 
The streets engulfed in flames
The single mothers pain
The deadbeat dad
The never ending game
The drugs and the guns
Molesting priest protected by the nuns
The pimps and the tricks
The trunks filled with bricks 
And not the kind that build houses
And these things play a factor
In the never ending story
Same book different chapter

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