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Gang 13

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Gang 13

I don’t want to be in your gang
I’m heartsick at the games you play
While I am busy building a life
You are busy taking them away.
I don’t want to be in your gang
I don’t want to maim or kill
Don’t want to sell women’s bodies
Don’t want to poison kids with pills.
I don’t want to be in your gang
So you’ve made my life a living hell
Driven me from the land I love
But I’m alive and live to tell
one day in the autumn of my years
I know I will hear your death knell
Heed me well
Heed me well
Heed me well!

◄ Bidoon

South of the border ►

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Hugh

Sun 11th Nov 2018 00:21

An excellent surprise to read out to the young sending over a clear message of what not to get involved in.
Drugs,violence and grooming, snowballing in our society must definitely be quelled.

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Douglas MacGowan

Fri 9th Nov 2018 23:37

Nicely captures the situation of one person taking on - and saying no to - a mass mentality of modern societal violence.

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Don Matthews

Fri 9th Nov 2018 21:47

I like it Eve ?

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keith jeffries

Fri 9th Nov 2018 20:16

Eve,

Do I detect the voice of prophecy? I think so. Another excellent poem

Thank you

Keith

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