| Ernest Barteldes BRAZIL ebarteldes@yahoo.com http://www.freeyellow.com/members/barteldes/index.html Broken Fatherless son Man with no family Running alone With no one to cry out to Motherless child She's a few blocks away But dead from her own blood As she parties away Like a man with a severed limb I try to smile in my loss While the river takes away The branches of a broken family tree I cry in the dark But remain unheard Who's to listen But the sleeping birds?
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