Joseph Anthony Montefusco

This land was once vastly green
Soil was as pure as lake water
Wild beasts roamed free
And Mother Earth was queen
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The obedient glimmer in its eyes
seems to have died
And not much to my surprise
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A once beautiful flower
Full of fruits and dreams
Now wilts away
From environmental srceams
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What was once known as democracy
Has now become hypocrisy
Because America’s not what it should be:
Land of the Brave; Home of the Free
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It’s been only three days
since our hearts intertwined
Now I sit wishing
that I could rewind time
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“Truth”
In this world now-a-days
What we need is truth,
Whether talking on your cell
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A phase of shadows where
only the dead dance
And all the corpses bask
in an eerie romance
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I wish I was naïve
So I wouldn’t have to believe
All those things I should not see
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What more is there to say
About a mind dulled by decay
And a soul sliced everyday
By their futile ways
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I am no longer among the living
Yet neither am I dead
Am I trapped in another dimension?
Or deep inside my head?
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Morning Innocence
We’re all born with it
As children, its what we live on
Screw death and destruction
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As my fingers touch this board
Nothing but my pure poetic soul is borne

And as my soul bleeds through my finger tips
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In this nation of integration
Were still segregation and separation
Thrives and tries to survive
And derive its strength from racist thoughts
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J- you are my treasured friend
When either of our hearts are broken - one of us will mend
From our pains, to every boy and girlfriend
Me and you will be there - until the end
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The pain of fifteen years
Summed up in one six foot tall body
Everything from death to backstabbing peers
He even stared into the barrel of a 'shotty'
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A place where depression and thought converge
Into one mass of insanity
Where maniacal thoughts begin
To form within the cranial cavity
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As her eyes sweep the room
She searches for prospects
Overlooking the one man that loves her
Regardless… she inspects
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A life tried hard
Tested by the ages
Overcome with stress
Channeled onto pages
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Where am I?
I see the waves surround
True I might be flotsam
But nothing else is around
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'Hear ye! Hear ye!
This court is now in session
The charges brought up
Are of unlawful possession
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