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How long ago must it have started?
Sitting soaked in sliver moonlight
on the knees of my father,
The chirrups of sleepy summer crawlers
Blended with his deep vibrato,
And the rhythmical stroke of hand on hair
Was like the heartbeat of the past of father and kin.
“Son,” he once said to me,
“The world isn’t all that bad.”
And after his death,
And into my christening as a father,
Those words that I carried with me were all that I had.
Tear stains can only last as long as the summer sun allows them to,
And cruel hearts can only beat until those who believed them tell it to
Stop
And question why the sun rises and sets
For those who give it no reason,
And for those who seem not to deserve it in any way.
As my child looked up into my eyes,
With his heart in tatters, worn to shreds that appeared to be
Tied up to the bars of the jail that held the ghost of an innocent man,
I found myself bringing up the words of a great individual that I seemed to know best:
“Son,” I told him, as I pushed up his chin.
“The world isn’t all that bad.”
And as we walked down the graying sidewalk
Hand in hand,
The sniffles wore down,
And I could hear the mournful song of a bird
That knew the secret of innocence.
A bird that seemed to be singing:
“World, this place isn’t all that bad.”
- by lalkaleliel |
- Poetry And Lyrics
- | Submitted on 07/17/2008 |
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- Title: This Place Isn't All That Bad
- Artist: lalkaleliel
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Description:
This is a poem I did for my Language Arts class discussion when we were studying "To Kill a Mockingbird." It shows the voice of innocence, and it's ignorance by those around them.
- Date: 07/17/2008
- Tags: tokillamockingbird bird song life world
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Comments (4 Comments)
- nerdydork411 - 08/08/2009
- Man that was great
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- Inyuashi 23 - 02/15/2009
- The feel of this is quite interesting...I believe you capture and create the setting effeciently enough...
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- ladyjewell - 07/17/2008
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without reading the description, I thought the first and second stanzas were a bit disjointed, like the poem would be complete with just the first stanza.
Nice imagery, tho'. - Report As Spam
- WingsEnclose - 07/17/2008
- Thats a brilliant book and do you know even without reading your info i had a thought that it reminded me of ol Atticus talking to Jem
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