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Persistence in Pieces
How does it feel when Romeo’s blood falls on your shirt?
 What didn’t kill you, didn’t make you stronger- it made you hurt
 Putting yourself back together in pieces like classic Frankenstein
 The stares of those the same read a cold warning to get in line
 
 Not worth your rocketing weight in beauty or a brain 
 Under the soft heart of a fairytale mind- a bitter break and sprain 
 A child’s tea set, never admitting to the fragile type of broken  
 Going and taking the cracked, misplaced and left token 
 
 Don’t know why you’re mad, bulls would throw in the hat 
 But you stay far too stubborn, too mulish for defeat like that
 You stare the peril of a hellish concrete jungle in the face 
 But at a touch, crumble like a cookie and frail like limp lace
 
 The people, the ones that walk up-right, unbent as a board
 Chilling enough, faces like pistol’s triggers can strike a sour chord
 Cocking your weapons and burliest bombs, encasing, closing in 
 Around something to precious for the vandalizing of simple sin
 
 What good is saying something if not to be heard? You don’t. 
 Superiors say not to waste treasured breath, so you won’t.
 Instead you glide through the world, a Harper Lee mockingbird
 Utter, never. Not a single useless, pointless whisper of a word

