Description: I think we know the human race is heading in the wrong direction, but things are never definite. We can foreshow things, but we can also change things.
AUGUR
Our words were splintered and frayed
Our lips twisted with contempt
Mocking each other’s mockery
Scorning their significance
Disregarding their despair
Noting their differences and discomforts
All to rebuke
Because we were…
Disconnected
Dismantled
Dedicated
Dangerous
And so it was declared
Our haunts
Were everything but memories in bottles
That we drank fervently
So that no one else could have a sip
And our hopes were
Nothing but a dream
We dreaded, declaring them nightmares
So we took horseshoes and stamped them out
Our minds dishonest to our hearts
Yearning for some release
The facts, crystal clear, yet
Somehow we refused to accept
Acknowledge
How this was to really be
A memory in a bottle
Distorted
We hated
A picture of hands interlocked, laughs interchanged, smiles irreproducible
A picture of us dependent on each other, leaning on shoulders
A picture of children holding hands, oblivious
Our words are sharp
That bottle long gone
Shattered in two
A reflection cast upon those shards
Bright and blinding - of only one face
Crippled with corruption
Jinane Ejjed
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