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Printed from https://shop.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/933583-To-World
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Rated: 18+ · Book · Drama · #1253431
Poetry in April -- in celebration
#933583 added April 28, 2018 at 11:58am
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To World
Hey there, World!
Are you the prince of darkness
or the prince of light
when you bury bodies or dreams
while you strut like a peacock?

Sometimes, you produce a healing
and gain momentum,
for when I stare at your dark side,
you let me see a billion tiny lights,
with a tendency to stroke your own ego
as you keep on worshipping yourself.

Even if one is subordinate
to your base material, your specialty
I find to be a sort of brilliance
that disorients,ransacks, blacks out,
or dazzles, and is secretly or openly savage.

Really, your story is a bit of cliché,
a beauty hiding its ugliness,
but then, isn’t it the same
for every being?
Who knows what’s under
each skin, including mine?

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Prompt: letter to the world

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