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Deception
May 9, 2014
And
she said,
"please come home,
save me from night"
long and hoping she wept through the year
as her soldier husband never returned.
She hoped and prayed
for it to
be a
lie.
Cries,
she screams
at her fate,
allegedly
bit her tongue, held her kids, suffocating.
© Jessica E. Pelham, AL
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EmilytheBelleofA. DIAMOND said...
on Jul. 15 2014 at 10:35 am
So it's short, but it contains SO MUCH!!! It's so beautiful, like you are, my friend!!! So wonderful!!! Your poem is so AMAZING. I'm defintely going to be checking your other great writings. Thank you for sharing this!!! I love it!!! Love the emotion in it!!! What I said in this coment, I mean it. Know there's always someone cheering for you!
