Acid Rain

August 12, 2012

It burns the skin These tears of sin Like acid rain, the years the pain The hands that touched the naked thigh Holding my breath until I died The never ending weeping inside Like acid rain the weeping the pain The black and blue The silent death The shallow breath The silent scream The endless scene I’m dead I’m dead Like acid rain The years the pain It burns the skin The tears of sin The years slip by No escaping from what’s inside It breaths it gasps until it dies. Photo: 'Become Your Dream' De La Vega, Azarel

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Lucian A. Sperta

Published Author and Poet over 25 books in paper back and digital books Selected American Library Association 2015 Model Citizen 2013 Writer of the Month Meridan 1989 American Society of Authors Composers and Publishers since 1994 #8 Hot Top 100 Hot New Release in Poetry #1 Best in Photo Essay Amazon.com Some people think I expose myself too much in what I say in my poems, I don't consider myself a poet as much as I feel I am a story teller, how can one write subjected to other peoples point of view on how I write, what I write, and how I express myself. This is my journey and self expression is how I choose to deal with it; words, writing has been the outlet where I control without fear, without shame, the pen and paper will never betray you. A poet is one, I believe, can take a surgical scalpel to the soul and let it bleed what it truly feels.....

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wordiotterJun 26, 2013

<p>I feel your emotion through my computer. My heart started thumping to the beat I was reading.</p><p> </p>

jwienerAug 13, 2012

Usually, rain is symbolic of renewal and rebirth, but you add another element, acid, to the rain in this poem. Thus, you take rain from representing rebirth to representing destruction, showing how everything is capable of having a negative side.