ETCHED AND SKETCHED

ETCHED AND SKETCHED

You have been etched

Sketched

Outlined

Drafted

And

Defined

So fine and true

Described

As the best teacher

Explained and defended

Enlightened

Man and their ways

Wolfs ways wins the days

Portrayed

When it has all been untrue

Presented as callous, cruel

A killer

Yet man is a killer too

Is that justified?

When he gets away with it too

He does not kill for truth

He kills for the thrill

He calls himself a warrior

What is a warrior?

A real true warrior

A warrior that fights

Stands up for family

Against their foe

Oh woe

The despair and misery

The calamity

Catastrophe

That has befallen the weak

But there is strength

Strength in their numbers

They are the pack

The warriors

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

10^th September 2012

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SQUASHED

SQUASHED

Compressed

Crushed

Pounded

Bottled up

Crushed feelings

Downright

Down and out

Clobbered

Pulverized

Crushed

Thrashed

Crashed

Bashed

To smithereens

Coiled

Up in a ball

No escaping this bottle neck

With a glimmer of light

Flickering

Candle as my light

Here in the darkness

Of my gloom

Cosseted it maybe

And be seen

Light

Bright

Containing blooms

On the inside of this

Small, small world

But within is a different world

Depression

Oppression

Dejection

This is the real world

Factual

Actual

Living breathing world

Where it is hard to escape

Break away

Getaway

To a more happier place

The light

The love

That endures

To the sweetest end

© Teresa Joseph Franklin

7^th July 2014

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