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Seamless Tragedy

By HomeGrown

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Seamless Tragedyoneness is the keyto weave what has been into the fabric of forevera seamless tragedytyrannical thoughts, a harbingerwords are as nothing but spoken liesa seamless tragedytoday some quiet children diedexplosives calmed their stifled whimpers in a breatha seamless tragedyvacating the ruins of the pastonly to live in the shattered here and nowa seamless tragedya heart has been broken yet againno solace found from the torment within the soulanother seamless tragedyHow is it that we can all forget half of this poem? Day to day lives are led, but how many of us think daily of Waco, or Columbine, or even Oklahoma City? I don't want to forget. In forgetting the tragedy, we lose perspective necessary to joy. Written August 20th, 2001 © on Aug 20 2001 02:39 AM PST, DeTavis   0 • 1

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"Seamless Tragedyoneness is the keyto weave what has been into the fabric of forevera seamless tragedytyrannical thoughts, a harbingerwords are as nothing but spoken liesa seamless tragedytoday some quiet children diedexplosives calmed their stifled whimpers in a breatha seamless tragedyvacating the ruins of the pastonly to live in the shattered here and nowa seamless tragedya heart has been broken yet againno solace found from the torment within the soulanother seamless tragedyHow is it that we can all forget half of this poem? Day to day lives are led, but how many of us think daily of Waco, or Columbine, or even Oklahoma City? I don't want to forget. In forgetting the tragedy, we lose perspective necessary to joy...."

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