Victim

Sometimes I feel it was my fault
Perhaps it was something I said
Sometimes I wake from a nightmare
Reliving it again in my head

Sometimes I need to be hurting
Feeling the pain once again
Sometimes cutting my own skin
Is the only thing keeping me sane

Sometimes I wish I was not me
Because I hate me so much
Sometimes I need to be hiding
Out of harms way, out of touch

Sometimes I need to seek refuge
In any drug I can take
Sometimes floating outside me
Dulls the pain and the terrible ache

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poem by SPC Kellaway
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Divided World

Empty streets of desolation
Boarded up houses standing alone
Factory buildings padlocked and empty

Forgotten men recalling better times
Times when they had a future
a job, some money to spare

Engineers and skilled workers
Head bowed and forlorn
Lining up for their pennies

Families dreading an empty Christmas
Mothers mending worn out clothes
Kids sensing their parents fears

Lonely hearts on lonely corners
their immortality dancing away
seeking bread, soup and comfort

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poem by SPC Kellaway
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