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Your Sorrow by B Galindo - [116 words]
Wot, Do Guys Really Need? It's A Mystery. by Louisa Duncan Have met a few, lost a few, and don't know where to go from here. [364 words]
Whimper, Weak Little by Marie Karr - [123 words]
Where No One Can Find Me by Marie Karr - [41 words]
When I... by Lucy Midnight - [46 words]
What You Took For Granted by Lucy Midnight - [33 words]
What He Means To Me by Lucy Midnight - [99 words]
Tu Seduccion Core Como El Rio by Roberto J Moreno It's about a girl I have a weird relationship with. It's in spanish cause it turn... [163 words]
To --- An Illusion by Duke Sekhon - [64 words]
They Came From Afar by Kennedy O Obohwemu Tries to picture why there's so much trouble on earth...where did they come from? [114 words]
The Plight Of Man
The Novel China Doll by Rae Seen too many things like it. [52 words]
The Message In A Dream by Thomas Buck - [69 words]
The Glum by Marie Karr In the Sociology class, to relieve the itch inside the brain, a necessity to watch the rain...of words... [140 words]
The Fugitive by Marie Karr An escapist lyric. [44 words]
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That Which Heals All Wounds by Mike Schiller - [482 words]
Tangles Of My Heart by Lucy Midnight - [61 words]
Swirling by Marie Karr - [62 words]
Soft Touch And Tender Kisses by Lucy Midnight - [68 words]
Runaway Life by Jay Little It's based on my life as it going. [335 words]
Rumbles N' Fights by Lucy Midnight - [98 words]
Realization by Louisa Duncan Hope this is something others will achieve and learn from. [124 words]
Popular Redundancies by Higgins Many words used in writing or discussion could be eliminated. [81 words]
Poetry, You'll Always Be Sweet by Dri Cook Someone here told me to never stop writing with my heart. How could I? Poetry is... [112 words]
People Who Should Be Phased Out by Higgins A senryu attack on those with irritating manerisms. [103 words]
Overindulge by Skyler Drevan When life has gone too far. [101 words]
Open Coffin by Sasu Dunno what Im thinking, read and see my mind... [133 words]
One Flaw Ruins All by Marie Karr - [39 words]
My Choice? by Thomas Buck - [24 words]
Mirror Talk by Dri Cook I dialogue with myself in front of the mirror about the woman I used to be. [46 words]
Mirror! Mirror! On The Wall .....? by Duke Sekhon - [115 words]
Maybe It's Goodbye! by Roberto J Moreno - [286 words]
Love At First Sight by Dri Cook Memories of a love story. [92 words]
Lets Face The Music En-Trance by Stuart Eric Longridge - [447 words]
Leaving Civilization by Marie Karr Forget the part about Tarzan. [126 words]
Lame Overused Expressions by Higgins Unimpressive redundant expressions. [156 words]
Kleidoscopic Sky by Buxton - [35 words]
Just For Today by Dri Cook Where are we going to? [216 words]
It Was Love At First Sight by Dri Cook Another take of LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT. I want to thank RAM, another wonderful pen frie... [163 words]
It Is Hunger That Binds Him, Decapitates by Marie Karr I don't know of any deeper way to express the grumbling in my stomach.... [83 words]
Indigo Blood by Buxton A poem pretty much.... [81 words]
Impulse by Marie Karr Sensitive, silently forceful. [47 words]
I Think... by Lucy Midnight - [52 words]
I Love Words by Dri Cook Words, what I do, what would I be, if I hadn't you to share my life with? [192 words]
Hurt...... by Buxton Thank's? [165 words]
Hidden Secret by Buxton - [68 words]
Goodbye My Friend by Thomas Buck A letter about friendship lost. [147 words]
Frightened Little Me by Dri Cook Frightened Litte Bee, now in quartains. Thanks RAM, thanks for your help and support! [258 words]
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For The First Time... by Gwendolen McCloud This particular poem speaks to a developing awareness of the value of time and thus the i... [83 words]
Failure, Of Course, Is As Dreary by Marie Karr - [147 words]
End This... by Sasu - [74 words]
Dreaming Nothing by Seth Jordan I am a 24 year old man prone to vivid dreams, which I translate into poetry and writing...this... [183 words]
Dream Pain by Marie Karr - [71 words]
Digging In by Marie Karr It came one day when all is a flash and you go, "Wow, yeah, this is so wonderful." [84 words]
Chaos by Lucy Midnight - [68 words]
Chakras by Stuart Eric Longridge Wheels of light and love. [70 words]
Battlefield And You by Amanda Connison - [53 words]
Back To Ashes by Karina Lizet Perez - [130 words]
Anything? by Lucy Midnight - [44 words]
A World With You by Rae - [49 words]

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TITLE (EDIT)
The Plight Of Man
DESCRIPTION
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[215 words]
AUTHOR
Skyler Drevan
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
I am Jeff, writer, dreamer, realist.
[July 2006]
AUTHOR'S E-MAIL ADDRESS
jlwilliams22@aol.com
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The Plight Of Man
Skyler Drevan

1.

A man can take a stand, but
He is often battered and condemned;
A victim of his own hand
How often you hear a story, a tale
Of a man that was brutalized;
But the punishment was unto him,
To the gods that was no surprise

2.

The manmade cell built of concrete and steal;
Could not withhold the pain;
Of the man who could not heal
The trials of yesteryear were burned throughout history
The transcripts of the past has been a mockery
Politics and pain, fear and resentment
Fall into a place of anger and judgment

3.

There are bodies of the bruised;
And there are the bodies of the wicked
There are the tales of the troubles;
And repulsive stories that have already been written
Far too many lives have been lost here;
Far too many days have been lived in fear
But to walk a day in those shoes
It’ll be my fate to forever sing the blues

4.

To walk alone and think of ones destiny
You’ll find what a mess that life can be
The gold that glitters;
Doesn’t beckon for you
For there is no statement that is more true
As long as we lay in this abyss
Our dreaded existence, no one will miss

5.

So we let time takes its course
We live in fear and famine;
We only dine on tears remorse
My bones are brittle and cold;
The side effects of rotting concrete
I’ll wait until I expire
My duty is now complete

 

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STORYMANIA PUBLICATION DATE
April 2004
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