by mary ann calingo
Published on: Nov 15, 2006
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Type: Poetry


I was born a filth.
Or so they say

My Sun she died
Just when the morning commenced
To rain what it’s left for me

My blood’s debauched
Or so they say

Their eyes bellowing
To breathe is a crime
My death, their life

This skin's been cursed
Or so they say

To His hands I surrender
To the reaper’s claws I concede
To my neighbors’ fangs I won’t

For I’m not this filth
Neither this blood
And not this disease
See through this curse
I am who I am


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