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05-26-2011, 05:16 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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Untitled thus far
part I
A little boy hangs his head in shame His father won't be back again There he hangs, a silhouette 9 lives left behind, they will never forget A town plagued by poverty Of turmoil and regret A sunset that never rises News sensationalizes And then there is silence. There should be riots. Instead there are gangs Murder and corruption No protection High infection No detection No direction They want to keep us illiterate Silenced, degenerate They give us the tools to destruction The aim was assimilation Manipulation, humiliation Suffer spiritual starvation / part II Forced to buy Forced to sell Forced to go Through financial hell All for what? A rich man's dream Chasing the cars and the girls and the cream Without a single soul in tact Once you die, money won't bring you back And your life well spent was meaningless And all that debt and stress you had was worthless Just like the hours you spent, slaving for society Against an oppositional majority All for what? To be drowned in formaldehyde On display in chemicals, set up in a velvet box To rot in the ground, to feed the worms? What was it worth? /part III Love your life, possessions end up possessing you What you own oppresses you, if you don't appreciate Every single sun rise, as sure as time, unable to differentiate All of the guarded words we say, only now things have changed. I see through a third lens one more poetic than the rest Finding meaning in the smell of rain, painting the sidewalk in shades of gray I see definition in the simple stars, dotting this fishbowl like white grenades And there is no way that misery pervades, nor will it persuade me Into thinking or believing life is anything less than spectacular Despite every single ****ed up and disgusting thing We, as the pestilence, have brought upon those most vulnerable All we can do is protect our hearts and help those who need it In spite of our differences, together we can dream and also achieve it. - A piece I felt compelled to write after recalling a documentary I watched last summer. The first stanza is based on a First Nations family in a northern Ontario reserve, where the suicide rate may be one of the highest in the world. Basically, the father killed himself, leaving the mother with several children. Eventually, she remarried, and if I recall correctly, she and her new husband committed suicide, leaving behind nine children, some of which witnessed the physical aftermath of the suicides. I've been trying to find the organization who made the documentary, but the title of it has left my memory. I wrote this pretty fast/passionately so excuse some errors. Last edited by bonesaw-orchestra; 05-26-2011 at 06:23 AM. |
05-26-2011, 06:27 AM | #2 (permalink) |
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I liked it, great theme, however - you could probably expand the describing words a bit. Such as:
Despite every single ****ed up and disgusting thing We, as the pestilence, have brought upon those most vulnerable All we can do is protect our hearts and help those who need it in spite of our differences, together we can dream and also succeed it. TO Despite every appalling and grimy obsession We, as the endemic, have struck upon those most vulnerable All we can do is guard our hearts while aiding others who suffer. In spite of our differences, together we can dream, we can succeed, we can make change. Now bare in mind this is merely my way of writing, there is no right or wrong way to express your feelings. It's only for if you would like to strengthen your sentences to become as powerful as you feel it inside.
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IMO, the language fit fine for what you were working with and the way that it was formatted. I don't feel like it needs to add more description/fluff to it. I feel like it makes more of a stronger point stripped down the way it is.
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06-08-2011, 06:59 AM | #5 (permalink) |
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i'm sorry but i'm getting the impression that this is another emo song.
i'm really not into sad songs. i think they're giving a wrong message to people. the world today needs more happy songs. |
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