Shamiellah's Tears
- Soli Philander

- Feb 24, 2022
- 1 min read
Shamiellah's morning started about fire
What was left after the night's burning, now in ash expire
No life, but the only thing not so lost
Amongst those weighed down a heavy cost
And no reprieve, no coming to assist
Shamiellah, the name alone, decorates the list
Her tears only provoke her ire
For how the officialdom does depress and tire
And the crush of increasing need
As she aims the desperate and vulnerable to heed
And as she ponders, inwardly listing
More arrive, that she is already assisting
SP


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