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  The Grackle

  

  By mourningstar13, Mansfield, TX

  You are the lifeless grackle crowding the telephone lines. You fly in large flocks with your smooth, slick, shiny feathers, the color of an oil spill seeping into the ocean. Your eyes are as yellow as a kindergartner's paint, sickly and beady, always hard, always angry. In true for...
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  Father, I love You

  

  By mourningstar13, Mansfield, TX

  I'm dying from insanity Why no Christianity? Pseudo-faith makes me stray I see dark in the light of day I was lost and I was found but was I really found at all? While others speak these words profound My stumbling walk becomes a fall I wear my cross upon my chest except for the d...
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  Searching for the Blue

  

  By mourningstar13, Mansfield, TX

  I don't understand, why the world is so bland. Why life is gray and fruits decay. Though I know I despise, how the sky always cries Tears of boredom, apathy, and fear of lies. Never seen, never heard. I see a thousand birds, A thousand paper cranes So I can wish myself away. The sky...