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The World Is a Room

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The world is a room*
with the walls bedaubed
with the green paint.

A mite is running in it**
she doesn't know her purpose
or does she like it.

Two bigger moppets***
have some claims.
Their voices are raised
like the hill growing
in the suburbia.

In the end one of them****
becomes a crumb.
She lifts her hand up
and spanks the mite,
not knowing her trespass.

At evening it's time for going to sleep***** -
the fingerling goes to her bed with rails,
being very sad and sure of a given lesson:
there's no point in enjoying yourself,
cause the sadness will always come later.

*nobody knows its magnitude,
unless it is a person
described in this poem,
trying to figure it out.

**like an old hamster
 in its spinning wheel,
 with the same knowledge
 about her destiny.

***because they're also wee
  in the front of God's face.

****probably the one in a skirt,
   although you can't be certain.

*****you'll have a dream about
    a child with a vile face
Written for a contest in :iconthepoetryofda:[link] . I had to write about my earliest childhood memory, so here you have the memory of me being spanked by my parents ==' The dream described in the last lines isn't connected with this memory, but it's one of my earliest remembered nightmares.
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Alexander-Musset's avatar
Just read this for the first time.
It is so disturbing. Children face so much injustice. But they don't realise it. They think it is their fault. It makes me angry.

Good job, good poem.

When I was a child,  I had an old fashion heater in my room. It was cylindrical with a little red light. The room was very dark. All I  could see was this heater with the light. I thought it was God watching me. I was scared of it.