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I Can Only Hope

July 13, 2010
By Krist.M. SILVER, Redding,
Krist.M. SILVER, Redding,
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Favorite Quote:
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.
Emily Dickinson


I have no clean clothes
and my feet are bare
but does that mean no one cares?
i wander the streets
looking for work
I make is little more then dirt
i watch for my sister
my mother is ill
at ten years i know whats real
will there be something better
will the future be new?
will the days clear into blue
will the life my little brother
lives for tomorrrow
be filled with less sorrow?
this fighting will cease
my people will survive
the next day i hope i am alive
i can only hope
i can only hope...


The author's comments:
This is inspired by the War long before the disaster in Haiti, The lives lost of a certain African race due to discrimination. even now i can see the unsanitary conditions and the disease and lack of everything and i hope that my poem brought that to you.

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