The Shinnery Review, Volume 56, 1997 Page: 53
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We were dropped off deep in the woods.
Once freed, we removed our blindfolds.
They left us the task of getting back home.
We knew not where we were nor which path to take
nor even if home was where
we wanted to go.
And though night would eventually fall,
The sun was still shining.
There was time.
-James Worley
Peter Pan
Cinders of blown-up heart;
Shreds of charred meat;
Splinters of future, lost,
Broken, lodged in deep.
Suicide's an ugly word:
the truth is often so.
Shriek of death cannot be heard,
drowned in sleep; alone.
I wonder, do you even know
the pain your ripples cause?
I see the lonely path you go,
but we, too, know our flaws.
The future is a hydra-path,
many-wayed despite that jerk,
and one day you will look and laugh
and think, God used my hurt.
- Brook Beckettpoetry 53
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