SHANE FLYNN

SHANE FLYNN

SHATTERED

When I Look I See Glass Offices

Filled With People Sat At Desks

Working From Nine To Five


Doing Whatever It Takes

Maybe Living To Work

Or Just Working To Live

Slaving Away, Just To Live

Giving All They Got To Give

Corporate Crap Dictates

That The People At The Top

They Rake In All The Cash

Always Refusing To Stop

Putting Capitalism Before People

Just Regulations, No Justice

No Life When Life Is Work

Work, Work, Work, Work

Putting Profit Before People

Well How Dare They,

The Pen Pushing

Government Cripplers

The Political Liars

The Sneering Ministers

The Corrupt Bankers,

The Corporate W*****S

When They Get To The End

Only Then Will They Have To Justify Themselves To A Higher Power And Justify Themselves

They Will.

Until Then We Can Only Get By

And Do The Dreaded Work

While All The Time We Wait

Yes We Wait And Wonder Why.

Shane Flynn

FALLEN ANGEL

A Fallen Angel She Fell Heavily

She Fell Through A Twilight

Skylight, She Was Badly Hurt

She Had Broken Her Wings

She Was Unable To Fly

She Feared For Her Life

She Really Feared That

She Would Die.

Her Mind Weary

She Fell To Sleep

Knowing There And Then

That She May Never Awaken

Her Young Life It Would Be Taken

She Lay There Hurt And Broken

She Lay There In Pain And Shaken

She Felt As If Her Life Was Taken

Then She Heard A Whining Sound

She Opened Up Her Weary Eyes

In Front Of Her There Gifted

Was Such A Surprise

A Little Puppy

He Stood There

With Not A Single Care

Happily Wagging His Little Tail

As Her Condition Worsened

Poor Little Angel So Very Pale

She Asked Puppy To Go Get Help

But He Sat There Wagging His Tail

"Please Get Me Help Little Dog

I Have No Want, Nor Wish To Die"

Looking At Her With His Innocent

Glassy Little Puppy Dog Eyes

He Could See Her Sad Tears

He Could Hear Her Sad Cries

He Crept Up Beside Her

And Snuggled In To Her

He Lay His Head On Her

He Tried To Keep Her Warm

As The Life Drained Out Of Her

Both Of Them Went Fast Asleep

Only One, The Puppy, Woke Up

Little Angel Was Gone To Death

Poor Puppy He Yelped He Wept

He Thought He Had Saved Her

He Thought She Was Kept

He Thought His New Friend

Would Catch Him As He Leapt

Suddenly Little Puppy's Master

Entered The Room, Here Angel

Here Angel, As Puppy Ran Over

Oh Well What Is Wrong With You?

Why All The Barking Little Angel?

The Little Puppy Was So Glad

His Masters Had Come Along

Things Would Not Be So Bad.

Here Angel, His Master Cried

Her Time Had Already Come

She Really Did Have To Go

Sadly An Angel Had Died

One Angel Had Died.

The Truth Is, She Really Did Live

And She Was Saved By The Little

Puppy's Master.

When Puppy

Went To Get Help

He Brought Back His Master

Who Saved Her

Little Angel Lives

😊

This Writer Told A Little White Lie

This Angel Deserved An Ending

The Written Word Is So Powerful

I Really Like This Happy Ending

I Think It's Fit For A Fallen Angel

And They All Lived

HAPPILY EVER AFTER

💥Believe In Angels💥

THE END.

Shane Flynn

THE CIRCLE

Circumstances Would Dictate

That Us Seven People Would

Be Here Seated Around This

Quirky Antique Oak Table

Our Hands Intertwined Together

As We Are All Sat Looking Inwards

Cautiously Eyeballing Each Other

At This Most Peculiar Circle

Us Seven People Are All Sat Here

All With Our Own Various Reasons

But All With A Common Purpose.

The Cynically Minded Readers

Among Us Will Most Probably

Be Imagining That I Am Trying

So Hard To Be Descriptive

Descriptive In That I Just Happen

To Be Describing An Out Of This

World Experience, Like A Seance

Well Now This Would Make For

A Very Interesting Story Indeed.

Unfortunately Though,

I Am Not Talking About

A Séance.

"We Are Here To Witness

The Opening Of An Envelope

A Crucially Important Envelope

That Will Undoubtedly Change

The Dynamics In This Circle

That We Have Here Forever"

Incidentally, My Incredibly

Beautiful Blonde Girlfriend

Is One Of These Seven People

The Envelope Is Torn Open

A Level Of Anticipation Arises

The Tension In The Air Could

Be Cut, Whoosh, With A Knife

As Sweaty Palms Flinch

And Sweaty Fingers Slide

As We All Wait Impatiently

Hearts Are Beating Really Fast

We are All Perceiving

Every Single Second As

One Never Ending Minute

THE ENVELOPE OPENS

READ IT, READ IT,

"Those Invited Seven, Sat Here,

Are Here To Witness The Written

Contents Of This Sealed Letter"

PAUSE

"There Is Not One

Of You Here

That Is A Winner

No Not One Of You

Had The Slightest

Chance Of Winning"

PAUSE

"You Seven Here Are All Winners

You've Won, You Have Already

Won The Prize, It Is All Yours

All Of You Really Deserve It"

"Share It Among All Your

Family And Friends,

Everyone You Greet,

Don't Waste It

Cherish It"

It Comes But Once In A Lifetime

WHAT IS THE PRIZE??????

THE PRIZE TONIGHT IS

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COMMUNICATION

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COMMUNICATION

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COMMUNICATION

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As Humans

WE Are Verbal Beings

We Need To Communicate

Communication Is Fundamental

To Our Existence And If We Don't Communicate With Each Other

Be It In One Form Or Other

Then We Have Nothing.

Every Single Relationship

That There Ever Was

That Did Not Work Out

Was Because Of One Word

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COMMUNICATION.

WRITTEN BY

Modern Irish Poet

SHANE FLYNN