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    3 long Poems
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    3 long Poems

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    3 long Poems

    Benny A. McFadden

    Sense Despair

    Pay The Village

    Little Ember

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBenny A. McFadden
    Release dateOct 24, 2016
    ISBN9781370697403
    3 long Poems
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    Benny A. McFadden

    Benny A. McFadden is a writer of poetry and fiction that lives in San Diego, California. An avid hiker, beer drinker news junky, he does not live in a tree but occasionally likes to climb up into one.

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      3 long Poems - Benny A. McFadden

      3 long Poems

      Benny A. McFadden

      Sense Despair

      Pay The Village

      Little Ember

      3 long Poems

      Published by Benny A. McFadden at Smashwords

      Copyright 2016 Benny A. McFadden

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      Sense Despair

      1- Tense and Hungry, I became Aware

      Of the subtle distinction between

      Empathy and Suspicion.

      Both of these adverse rules of judgement

      Became motors for my machinery of

      Persistence to survive others wrath of

      Dangerous sympathy and pinpointed distrust.

      -I maneuvered through these streams

      That pushed equally against me

      Using more humor than hate to force myself

      On beyond rules of judgement seeking

      Acceptance from those I disliked-

      Frustrated and disguising my Anger,

      I roamed within a gauntlet

      Of speculation, false promise of redemption,

      Empty hands offering temporary strength;

      Sustenance, salvation…

      -And, I found those willing to give me

      A fair chance. The same people I

      Remembered who had done that every time

      Before the Despair.

      In went positive thought and repair.

      Out went negative currents

      That did not purposely ensnare me

      But unwittingly fed self-empathy

      And a misanthrope’s view of Humanity.

      I tuned my mind into the world then

      Realizing I alone did not suffer

      That fateful watershed of empathetic

      Or suspicious emotions poured onto us

      By those wanting shelter from

      Our presence that contradicts their

      Tentative fluctuations of control.

      2- Frightened drivers sell your cars.

      Your fear of bills and unpredictable

      Price of fuel justifies the sell off

      Of your death machines. The White

      Passageways of freeways and

      Interstates bare reefs and memorials

      Of citizens dead that became

      Excuses to raise rates and terrify

      You as you navigate unaffordable vehicles

      To occupations paying small wages.

      The Uninsured, a great evil in our society,

      Hover through fog created by databases

      That study our awareness of how a

      Ledger dictates our Fate. Hospital

      Parking lots fill with taxicabs acting

      As temporary emergency ambulances

      For injured or ill people that cannot

      Ever afford medicines and supplies

      To grant them sustainable health.

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