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Crushed black velvet surrenders

Winter melting hides like tears from his face

Curtains of closed-fisted prejudice fill him

Lifeless eyes

Famished wretched shadows converge

Vigilant arrogance like Cain before God

Besieged by silence a passage stilled

Heightened by desperate desire

Terror - Heart pounding

Hooves beating earth

Sustaining life

Revealing its consuming indignities

Born broken spirits

Destined to crawl in the dirt of a caste

Crowned as debris they are nothing

Despised for what others have taken

Beaten for what they have lost

Accused in sorrow he hates

Shuffled through empty streets and pockets

An omnipotent blessings disgrace

Sacrifice him leaving a skeletal pride

Mangled blood and teeth as the hungry eclipse their prey

Fallen limp with the atrocities denoting around

Anguished grasping to his life

Smoking with breath denying its completion

Seeking still the chances that evade him

Taunting huddled by illusions to die