"Destined Minds"

YOU LOOK BUT DO NOT SEE

you see the salted tears
but you feel not its stinging

you see my broken heart
but you feel not its aching

and how could you, for you are
are lacking in empathy of man

vile vile emptiness you are
you take up space that is wasted

on you and your children, you
breed a new breed of vileness that

walk and destroy just as you have
done they have learnt you ways

well - and you are not happy with
your life -only happy at days end

of the deeds you gloat about and roll
in it's muddy glory

you are the vileness that walks
and harbors spite - you are the

essence that breathes the stolen
breath of life for you have no

life of your own, you can only
wear the shoes of others and on

you all is ill fitting, you
hobble in our shoes and your

goblin face distorts at the
discomfort but persistent you

are for you have no shoes to
call you own for envy is all

you are - your focus is on the
want of others and you hurt

your children but you do not
care for you will admit neither

you wanton lack of compassion
and empathy and you pat yourself

on the back and spend your days
and devising and your nights

drinking and wasting away your
years of rage for you were

milked from your mothers poisonous
lap of deception and feel not

the end of time that awaits for you
the end of time that will judge

you by the very measure of what
you saw and felt not and then

you will see and then you will feel
and there hopefully your children

will not hear your cries the they
were long time ago saved
.............from your fate

Maree Long
(c) Maree Long 2008

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