take away the rain
take away the water
take away the grass and trees
take away the birds
take away the forest and the animals
take away the seeds and the insects
take away the rivers and the sea
take away all you have ever known
take away the atmosphere
take away all the life
take away all the hope in the world
take away every word that was ever spoken
take away love and joy
take away paradise and heaven
take away the sun and the moon
take away the universe
leave God with nothing
nothing is what is left

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inundated with this deluge
this morass of hurt and pain
I'm seeking some refuge
wishing I could change the game
it's not all hearts and spades
there are diamonds we seek
but troubled clubs get in the way
so much social disappointment
heartbreak is what I say
this too real sci-fi tale
so many broken people
it seems that we have failed
on my daily wandering
I sometimes think
midst all my pondering
I've lost another real piece of me
all the best years of my life
seem far behind me now
this grinding life with all its strife
binds me to the past somehow
reminding me of who I was
making me who I am in life
constant struggling here and now

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this
collective
insanity
this
world
imbibing
fire
water
this
craving
hunger
this
rampant
thirst
chewing
on
hate
this
evil
state
these
mind
numbing
pills
political
trills
this
violence
spewing
radioactive
words
elements
of strife
this
elemental
life
environmental
spills
this
universe
of thrills

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