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The Web Poetry Corner - Richard Betts Jr. - Break

Break

by

Richard Betts Jr.

The fickle hands of this world
Build you up - only to break you.
The twisted ways of this Earth
Will let you be - only to take you.

Time sprints by quickly,
Hasty hands spin around the clock.
And the weight of this world
Crashes down on you like a rock.

Dreams are deferred and shattered
By the free-falling boulders,
As you sag and bend by the
Enormous weight of your shoulders.

You struggle and groan,
And your hands cut and bleed,
As you cling to your hopes
And clutch onto your dreams.

Maintain your strength,
Do not let this world break you.
Don't let the pressures of life
Steal the dreams that make you.

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