Finding My Redemption

By Balladoad

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So this is a collection of poetry that I've written. Some of it's very fantastical. Some of it is mythologica... More

Silk, Thrones, and Beggars
A Blonde Girl and a Black-Haired Girl
Life, Freedom, Equality, Kindness
Equality and Nature
Brown-Haired Boy
Fuck Palaces I Want Rolling Plains
Air
Deny Yourself, But
Infinitely
Blood and Fire
Consumers
Secrets
Sir
Ripples in the Water
Needs of the Many
Knots in my Destiny
Pump-Well
Aloneness
Whispers
Sunlight on the Water

Protagonists

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By Balladoad


You would never go hungry to feed a stranger's child

You never felt your world draped in sunlight

When your crush looks at his girlfriend

And he's happy

And you're so glad he's happy

You never took your scarf off on a ice-cold night

To drape it around the child you met five minutes ago

You've never felt the water fill your lungs

You've never faced the arrows head-to-head

You've never looked at yourself and thought

I want to help I want to help

No matter the personal cost

You never have felt this

And you never will

Born into privilege as you are

And taught just to value yourself

So of course you don't know holy

Holy holy holy holy

Of course you don't know brave

Leftist, heroic, selfless brave 

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