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Hyacinthe_Blu
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Post by Hyacinthe_Blu »

Mama...

How many more people?
How long must we hear
Of mass destruction
Punctuated by incompetence?
I was shown a black box clip
A recent clip
Of one Pius boarded...

I saw but
I cannot watch...

If I did
My dreams will haunt me
Of lives lost
And made to watch

If I cannot stomach
A prelude to the inevitable
Show me how
Just show me
How gladiators bleed
In a coliseum
Of Opponents
Man and beast...

Then millennia later
A flying coffin
Of living dead bodies

I cannot view
...collapsed stories
Of rubble
Onto children
Not numbering few

Make me unsee
What I viewed
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Tobewankenobe
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Post by Tobewankenobe »

There's a lot here. It addresses this sort of guilt of knowing.
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Alexch377y
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Post by Alexch377y »

Shows the stresses of knowledge and the guilt that can be experienced due to the possession of truth.
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Post by Aliciaroseperry1992 »

First thought after reading this is, IGNORANCE IS BLISS! Sometimes the knowing, the seeing, can be too much to bare on one person.
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