Poetry: Power - by Laura Leigh Fields

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by Laura Leigh Fields

Created on: February 07, 2007 Last Updated: May 14, 2007

-Control Freak-

How can you...
damage me?
With broken wings,
I am not free.
Kicking me down,
there's pain on your shoes.
I will not cry,
It would only please you.
Your words are contradictory.
I should do what you want.
Live the life,
that you don't.
I am your animal,
I am trapped in your cage.
I can't break free,
I am hostile and full of rage.
You break me down,
your words cut like a knife.
I am alone and wounded,
you have the power over my life.

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Poetry: Power

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by Les Zsoldos

Power
Power of every nature and form
Can be used to charm or overwhelm,
To establish a forceful realm,
To fulfill buried
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by Laura Leigh Fields

-Control Freak-
How can you...
damage me?
With broken wings,
I am not free.
Kicking me down,
there's pain on your shoes.
I will
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by Peter J White

Maiwe, Zimbabwe! Maiwe, our country!
Maiwe, Zimbabwe! Maiwe, her people;
Mourn for them, you who have written
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by Moeze Lalji

Power
Is awesome
In water

Enough to
Drown us all

Their population
You could never
Count

They are just
Everywhere

Imagine
The dam in
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by Heather Kingsley

Power can corrupt
in the hands of the foolish
Tread carefully there.

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