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Rated: E · Poetry · Philosophy · #2333048
In a dark movie theater, the movie may be worth the two plus hours - a nice prose poem.
For whom does the earth shake
And the twister envelop
Into this horrific chaos and calamity -
The seminal buck and sedentary doe,
Who relish their wooded habitat
And open space -
Where food may be found
And chomped on,
In itty-bitty chews,
While raising their young
In auspicious rankings? 
What of those lackluster days
Of dry, ineffectual lands
Whose environs may lead to cruelty
And baseless truths? 
Must the habitation of average sustenance
Involve a tomorrow of inclement rancor? 

Grief and despair can overcome
Most everyone.  But like a child restored,
Humanity must recover an innocence lost,
Grappling with the Earth
In a calm, warm-hearted,
Immensely tough, soft way…
Fueling and shaping the universe
Of tomorrow’s infinite, wispy, sunny edge…

The rival proclivities of ancient corpuscles
Known as mental chemistry
Must never own the day;
These crippling scores of toxic symptoms
Must never overshadow
This benign and wounded brethren
And sisterhood -
The fight most likely flies and moves
In both directions of this unstable junket
For the anti-contrite and fully aware;
And the bustling decay of one’s
Perilous society
Shall be redeveloped and renewed
Into a brand new light at the end
Of the tunnel -
An economically vital urban area
Of a now encompassing
And grateful locale -
On the horizon of model decency
And awesome grace…

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