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Dark Hands
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(Ben Heine © Cartoons)

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I believe in the truth

I believe in goodness

I believe in beauty

I believe in happiness

I believe it to be

In all people

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Dark hands

Seek the pasty white face of our hope

Cultivating fear and loss and greed

These hands are impudent, coarse

Having in them death’s venom

They wait for nothing

A garrote upon day’s shadowy war

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I am tired of the child’s howl

I am tired of the mother’s tear

Tired of the father’s motionless yowl

I’m sickened by these horrid truths

Tired of the mistreated seas

Tired of the seething wave

Of trembling earth and air

I’m tired of our white treachery

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Copyright © 2006 mrp / thepoetryman

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-->This cartoon is the last of a set of four images,

which theme is : "Make Peace, not War!"

-->See first cartoon and poem

-->See second cartoon and poem

-->See third cartoon and poem

-->Thank you thepoetryman for your stunning verses.