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End of the Rainbow

January 3, 2011
By poetryslam GOLD, Ware, Massachusetts
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\&quot;When the World Is Full of Pain, and All That\&#039;s Left Is Love And Hate, Give Me Love.\&quot;<br /> <br /> ~Sons of Sylvia~

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I looked into the sky one day
To see the blue and white,
I looked and found a rainbow;
No rainclouds did I spy, though.

I walked on towards the end,
Hoping to find some gold.
I walked and I walked,
Until I grew quite old.

I saw the autumn die,
I watched the winter sleep,
I heard the spring yawn,
Awakening at dawn.

But when I came to summer,
The twentieth I did count,
I was out of breath and out of luck,
For the rainbow then went out.

The author's comments:
I thought of this during an 8th grade english class a few years ago, and love writing it and reading it aloud.
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