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Winter Choices

January 14, 2014
By Vavapoetry GOLD, Salt Lake City, Utah
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Vavapoetry GOLD, Salt Lake City, Utah
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"Once social justice begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. And you cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore." -Cesar Chavez

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Soft whisper flew away
The sky was tainted with grey
As her footsteps crushed snow
Cold wind clutched her out of sight

Vain words are still with woe
Hands tremble, salty tears flow
Alone in the fierce night
Small, skinny, sick, left for dead

Blinded by the brutal white,
Yet wouldn’t go without a fight
Loved her still though she fled
A bird that could not remain

Could live, free from the chain
Of old age and of the pain
But peace will fall, come day
Carried by the sun’s soft ray

© Thomas W., Scituate, MA

The author's comments:
Got assigned a weird rhyme scheme, and started writing randomly...turns out it's about an old woman left by an Alaskan tribe in the winter because of limited resources
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