Pandora's World

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by Alex Price

 

Sometimes I wonder about Pandora

and what she felt

opening her box of evils

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Watching the world suffer from

Death, disease, famine

Despair, hatred, cruelty

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Is she mournful?

Regretful, even

maybe depressed?

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Doomed to suffer the same fate

as those she sentenced

it seems

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There is no going back though

Her world is suffering

Maybe we can take solace

in that we are all in this 

together

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They have sprung forth from Pandora's Box

and now we are bound to Pandora's World

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But as the story goes

hope never left the box

I wonder why

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Maybe it was too frightened

after all

it has spent the longest 

with the evils we now face

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So I say

It's alright, little hope

You can come out now

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We will hold you close

cherish you

protect you

love you

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And like we always have

we will brave the calamities 

of Pandora's cruel world

together

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