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A Battered Soul

By Jeannie Eckstine

        

                      Lost and consumed

                Placed in a poisonous cage

                 Minds’ being sentenced to life

               Jagged steel stabs like a knife

           Locked the door while walls were built

                Threw away the key to hide quilt

                                  Diving

                       Winds already blown

                            Head held high

                        Silenced the thoughts

                              Swimming

                   We slipped off the mound

                   Getting caught in a net of lie's

                   Look into them dreadful eyes’

                              Suffocating

                       Longing to breathe

                              Stinging rays

                   We got stuck in current ways

                               Drowning           

                   Our ship's heart's sinking

           Tossed out a raft to keep them afloat

                 There's no life on this  boat

              Crashing the shore against waves

                All I saw were two open graves