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Ashes to ashes

April 26, 2013
By Cordy BRONZE, Coronado, California
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Standing atop my city I realize
All the death and despair is fate
We are rewarded or penalized
For the deeds we each reiterate

Life is not giving, it is taking
For we are not living without reason
We must give back or be forsaken
Into the earth from which we’ve risen

I indulge in the sins of humans
Without a whim or second glance
Knowing the result of selfish choice
Still each is given a chance

We are a sad excuse for righteous
Yet we serve justice with enmity
Spitting in the faces of the lessers
Shunning each away in their pity

I give not to the people of Earth
To the non deserving trash
But Serve those who are proper
Condemning the rest to ash

© Seita O., Louisville, KY

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This is for my english 11 class
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