This expresses my feeling toward an utterly intolerable crime that goes beyond the bounds of human decency. The crime kills off the innocence and aliveness of children who grow to suffer throughout adulthood.
Child playing in a sandbox A sunny, cool spring day Pure aliveness A miracle of god
A black ominous shadow Abruptly rips up the child Thoughtlessly ravaging Tearing life from innocence
Inflicting bewilderment Pain guilt and confusion A child’s soul dies Four year old remains
Tears in the sandbox Inner death of the child A childhood stolen Aliveness nevermore
-Glenn Baxter
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Reviewed by Jane Rodway (Reader)
Reviewed on January 12, 2007
You filled in alot of intense emotions and vivid scenes into a small area without overdoing, great work.
While Debtors prisons no longer exist, many people continue to be persecuted for crimes related to poverty or inability to repay money owed to municipalities. This practice remains in an injustice that needs to be rectified.
For the reasons I describe in this book, the world-wide suffering, death and extinction of humanity is very likely to occur, unless nonviolent and democratically determined radical and revolutionary personal and societal actions and changes are taken
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true pain coined here.....
yes well done