Exceptional

With those hardened hearts kept tightly shut...

History Repeats

by LisaMay

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We pray compassion will survive in public and in private lives. Misplaced power holds to a rut — those hardened hearts kept tightly shut. The damage done in homes world-wide, dysfunction rife, a rolling tide. Some fam’ly ties forever cut — those hardened hearts kept tightly shut. When greed’s bad avarice holds sway, we read the news with sad dismay. Of thieves and fraudsters there’s a glut — those hardened hearts kept tightly shut. We dream of how our lives could be, when lived in peace, our hopes set free. But tyrants love to preen and strut — those hardened hearts kept tightly shut. It’s harsh when lives are lived in fear while clinging to what we hold dear. Please pray for change — love will rebut those hardened hearts kept tightly shut.

Writing Prompt Write a poem of any type. It must have at least three stanzas. And one line in the poem must repeat in every stanza.

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