Just a stones throw away
From obscurity
A pale match
Sequestered 'neath
Poverty's reality-
I reach for a glimpse
Of todays rainbow visions
Hope slighty tints their hue
Visiting of full and running
over...
This greedy cup of mindessness
Belongs to you...
Stepping stones to success? ? ?
Squishing of one or two? ? ?
Necessary to your vanquished soul?
Coals stone dark view-
Have taken their toll! !

Theodora (Theo) Onken

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