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Always Hungry

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By Rute Eliana SantosPublished 6 years ago 1 min read
Photo by Ana Formigo

Sometimes I cry for no reason

I like to cry when I'm not cutting onions

Honesty burns, hurts and heals

But what's the meaning

Of this tears running down my cheeks, streaming?

I've lost my job, my family and my innocence

But I'm always hungry craving for more, ignorant!

Sometimes I can't stand myself so I go for swim

''Gaivotas em terra, tempestade no mar!''

''Seagulls on the land, storm at the sea!''- They say!

Ohhhh so grim! So I swing:

Swing, swing, swinging sea waves...

I'm starting to be aware: I am because you are.

There are much bigger storms out there!

Like that kid that laughed at his own funeral

And his mom died because of it,

Because of fear.

I'm afraid of dying alone, starving!

I'm always hungry!

I'm always hungry for those who are really hungry

I'm always hungry for the day we all become trees

That soon they'll cut down

For their profit

For their career

For their cats

For their child trust fund

For fuck sake!

Will you ever eat that money?

Will you ever breathe that money?

What are we worshiping?

Why? Funny?

I'm a wild hungry skinny child

Walking towards destruction

'Til the day Mother Earth eats me

Any question?

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