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No One's Child

I am just a number.
Don't think of me as a woman, a man,
An animal, a child.
Compassion and pain are not mathematical,
Thoughts are our elective.
Suffering blinkered out as on horses.

I am just a symbol,
Masking lots of women, men,
Lots of animals, lots of children.
Through sickness and health,
Violence and senselessness,
Clouds swirling aimlessly -chaos.

This number, who is it?
A number, a problem, a family, a life, a...
What is in this number?
Surely not so many as it says.
Can't be real for so many.
It doesn't matter for so few.
You can't see a face behind '1'
Amongst thousands just the same.
It'll not be you as well,
Or maybe it is...
And they just don't tell you when you become a number.
Not woman.
Not man.
Not animal.
No one's child. No one's beautiful, laughing child.
Just a number.

Author notes

The subject matter isn't all that ambiguous on this one. I'm feeling a little bit blue about certain things that i can't change. I was watching comic relief and just got really upset by the fact that there are so many people who we just forget about all the time.

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  • monkeyman767
    March 19, 2007
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    quite frankly im speachless (that and im feeling lazy) nice work (as per usual)


    • eveningthought
      March 20, 2007
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      Why thank you, it's always nice to be told things by speechless people. I always find they've not a bad thing to say about anyone. Such nice folk, lol.


  • johnny81
    March 17, 2007

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    This is one that I had to think about a little bit. I really liked it, though. Nice job. It made me think of being ambiguous or being deindividualized amongst a large society of people. Maybe I'm reading the meaning of this poem wrong, but I enjoyed reading it and I think it is written very well.


    • eveningthought
      March 18, 2007
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      No, that's a pretty good interpretation actually. it's about becoming just a faceless, nameless individual behind a statistic. You read it quite well, thanks for commenting.

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