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Gabriel

By Laura Camila Rivera

With eyes as dark and stern as yours

No wonder we're in fear

Throughout the years you've pushed them down

They've always hid their tears.

You're fragile when I come around

So old and out of place

But from the past youre stories thrive

They always leave a trace.

With wrinkled forces, thoughts askew

I'll never understand

How far and wide you'd go for us

To think of you a man.

The anguish that you put them through

Has trained their every thought

A people lined with judgement

And forgiveness left to rot

Throughout the pain we stand now

For you've withered away

If only you had cared for them

They would have let you stay.