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Humankind’s Features
Émilie Hébert
Contributor
Colored faces, black and white
Eyes, lips, tears despite
Minds torn turn upright
Human nature all unite
Ugly grief, naked, and bright
Mothers, daughters holding tight
Misery madness’s ultimate fight
Human nature in delight
Forever the Both in Limbo
By Contributor Alexandra Merfu
where did you go sweet young child
when the weather warmed, a new mild
temperament shaken by a wound too big to bear
and a heart too fragile to care.
where did you go young stranger
looking on now in fits of anger
where did your mind go
where did mine? i don't know
dissipated into the clouds of screaming hail
hail hailing down hail, wrenching me out
of me again, just flail, flail, flail,
into the dying and burning of the doubt
pulled out by the back of my head
i’m in some sort of here, in bed
your voice never heard at all
and too many of them around me in the walls.
please
gentle god or gracious goddess
pull me out again
so that i might stop my despair