Radix malorum est cupiditas
Published in
May 2, 2024
Tortured by how life could have been
the silent scream lifts her off her feet:
ill-luck, tough-times, bad-choices
some had the benefit of clergy
others that stability wrought by money.
She’d been brought up ‘in care’
nobody cared for her like they did
their own kids;
flung from pillar to post
she had runaway — straight into the arms of evil-doers.
Many of the boys and girls she knew had given up
the ghost, suicides did not need social…
