Many survived

some took an exist to life

and few got scars, wounds, and bloody noses.

 

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Doors shut

 

 

You can hear fear’s theme song in these poor soul’s hearts

Those with high blood pressure had no chance to say goodbye

the blood flood in their lungs slayed them before the trigger was even pulled.

 

The righteous ones turned to the heavens

but the glassed ceiling top blocked the sky view

leaving them hopeless and faithless.

The unrighteous wondered

is it that they seek not for the heavens 

death as came upon them.

 

Daddy’s little girls and mommy’s little boys

faced the cold and silent walls

biting their fingernails

crying tears cascading like waterfalls.

 

The popular kids, the “I have it all” popular kids

had nothing, not even a shoulder to lean on 

nor a familiar face to sympathize with

their “cool” talk turned into gibberish

the world didn’t seem to revolve around their existence anymore

thanatophobia did, the fear of dying.

 

Misfits could've cared less

they didn’t see any meaning to life anyways

roaming the hallways targeted as preys

no wonder they were runaways.

 

Hippies ran the hallways fearlessly, rebelliously, and peacefully

as if bullets flying in the air was just their imaginations, a joke

or maybe a bloody video game.

 

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Man down

He forgot to take the shortcut

 

The poor Jewish janitor

who spent half of his centuries

mopping sorrow off the concrete floors

sweeping secrets behind closed doors

wiping rumors off the exposed walls.

 

Pedophilic educators faced an unexpected execution

apologies to the young dreamers

whose dreams encountered prosecution

apologies to the young visionaries  

whose visions gazed elimination

and apologies to the young revolutionaries

who will never get to witness their own profound revolution

but their own execution.

 

I’m hazed

I’m still in haze

cause we blame society

but we are the society

the brainwashed fools 

and the selfish idiots

and we wonder why we are corrupted. 

 

-Marlene Rashidi