empty sky

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Down on my knees, I cried and turned to the sky; I prayed to god but received no reply. I tried again, this time louder. How pathetic I must have looked, diamond eyes stained black with mascara, dirty, filthy, and still I prayed. I bare no grudge for your nonresponse, but I have a heavy heart for the false hope I was given; For it's not that you didn't reply but rather that the sky was empty that night. That night, and the night before that, and the night before that. How many had suffered the same as I? Begging, and pleading, crying to the sky to then realise no person - no god- was there by their side.

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