Saturday, November 7, 2020

The Pauper Prince

Like a melody that was meant to erode

Away the mud from your heart

About me, I wish the next day brings

To you the love that I couldn't bring.

In a narrow channel of aches, I sing 

Of the blood we failed to donate,

Like the wealth that flows streamlined

Around the edges of structures divine

I see the waste we have made

Of something pure, but fragile.

I see, for that's my blessing and curse,

In a hope that these words would nurse

The wounds their ancestors caused,

If possible, the bad, and the worse.

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