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Shake off this evil scene

 
 

Whose brick through our front window breaks?

Sending shards from the north and east

I arise to retrieve the note wrapped around by mindless goon

My family are sick with worry getting nought but grief

The drugs scene has invaded since we discovered the weed

Not a situation that can be for any a degree of envy

This vessel that destroys the family soul, no face in envy green

But as a family we’ll shake off this evil scene, cast off its evil tentacles

Why oh why did ‘him upstairs’ cast this plague upon this family

Cleared are the shards from yonder broken pain  

Police Constable speaks, yet no comfort does it bring

Tears well up in our eyes, we feel cruelly exposed to this scourge

Drugs test the strength of our love

We have this idea who brings poison to our son’s veins?

I wish the plague upon these suppliers who bring dark times

Oh to see brightness in my wife’s skin tone and stars in her eyes

Sunlight dancing in our hearts and son holding our hands once more

Greenery and flowers to replenish these shattered lands

Until that day faith holds strong against this demon

With God’s help we not have to turn our other cheek.

◄ Confined by Chains

Blood-red Rain Drops ►

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<Deleted User> (4281)

Thu 22nd May 2008 03:32

Hello, Phil

I found your poem written with passion of a true writer! Wonderfully presented however filled with a tone of grief and a sadness of loss something precious. The Auld English not familiar to me but I did enjoy reading.

Thank you again for sharing your heart with others and me!

Warm Regards,
Zuzanna

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Philip Golding

Wed 21st May 2008 20:26

The Shakespear play Romeo and Juliet line 'What light from yonder window breaks' popped into my head so i tweaked it a little and attempted to mimic the Auld English language used by the bard.Unfortunately there is a thread of truth within the poem.

Many thanks to everyone for your kind comments.

<Deleted User> (4744)

Wed 21st May 2008 15:55

Hi Phil - Drugs are often easier to find than people imagine. All too easy to be caught in the scene and be carried from weed to needles. I hope that if this is a personal pieve you have the strength to get through it... if it is poetic license then you succeeded in making it believable.

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clarissa mckone

Wed 21st May 2008 15:19

Hi Phil, nice poem.

darren thomas

Wed 21st May 2008 15:09

Hi Phil - as usual you paint a very vivid picture and one that I hope is written as a third person and not something that you're having to deal with personally?
I noticed an almost Auld English syntax in the sentence construction, putting the verb at the end of a sentence, after both after the object and subject. I would be interested in why you did this?
A very intimate and perhaps disturbing picture that you have conjured up here. As a poem, I enjoyed it. I DO hope that it's poetic license though. Cheers.

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