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Blood
Aissa Bocoum, OCTOBER 2025

Blood courses through our veins
Tying families together
Saying blood is thicker than water

Blood splay across the battlefield.
From bloody fields mixed together
Blood gives us life and death.
Death from diseases in blood and war
War breaks family and friends apart.
Ghosts appear that have lost so much blood

Blood gives us the chance to live.
Blood is what we share.
No matter who we are
Blood will outlast us all.
Blood controls us; without it, we are dead.
That we are so dependent on.

War brings losses and death.
But blood wins all deaths.
This is but a game
One that determines who lives

Though the true master is god
Who is the one who controls
Life and death

Blood is mysterious 
Giving us traits and bonds with one another
Blood kills us all in the end.
Through diseases or the loss of it
Blood is what is needed.
Blood creates and destroys us all.

Aissa Bocoum

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      • The Overconsumption Cycle
      • Know Your Rights: What To Do Around Ice
      • Every Season Has A Purpose
    • CREATIVE WRITING >
      • America’s Broken Mirror
      • 400 Lux
      • The boy who feels like Monday
      • Transgressions Against the Father
      • How Fish Become Gods
      • How Fish Become Gods Pt.2
      • Colors of The Wind
      • Friends Forever Not
      • written
      • Why I Spend so Much Time on Rooftops
      • I am from trees and flowers in autumn
      • I WONDER
      • Deathbot Chapter 2: Mellow Rain
      • stolen whispers
      • Puppets in Suits
      • They Hate Us Cause They Ain't Us
      • Heartbreak is a massacre.
      • affliction
      • Sides
      • I Refuse To Cry
      • The Silent Wonders of Time
      • Why So Serious?
      • The Painful Wonders of Space
      • Ante Meridiem
    • Artist Corner >
      • How Fish Became Gods
      • D&D Compilation
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      • Watership Down
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    • Teachers Corner: DeVaul
    • Teachers Corner: Ejzak: How to Combat chatGPT? Embrace the Same Anti-Authoritarian Teaching Practices We Should’ve Been Doing All Along
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      • In Another Universe
      • The Stars
      • Two
      • Europe Photos
      • Is Hope the New Punk Rock?: Superman Movie Review
      • Pretty in Pink
      • Cancel the Mouse: Why New Disney Sucks
      • Lampshade
      • Rose Garden
      • My Favorite Color Used To Be Pink
      • I'm Not a Writer: The Importance of Being Bad at Things
      • American Circus
      • Freedom Within The Soul
      • Watering Can
      • Are America’s Food Regulations Really Keeping Us Safe?
      • You!!
      • My Father's Son
      • Good Mother
      • Broken Mold
      • Young and Pretty
      • Pluto
      • Always.
      • A Talk About Illegals
      • Eyes
      • Woes of the Mediocre
      • Two Summers
      • "Are You Stupid?"
      • Chimeras: Growing Up in Majority-White and Majority-Black Schools
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      • Absense of August
      • Being fast is a disease
      • Why Won't You Listen To Me???
      • DayDreamer
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      • Three of the LiB
      • I'm Not a Writer: Small Things to Live For in the Winter
      • Deltarune: The "Real" Reality
      • Perfectly Imperfect: Gilmore Girls Review
      • You Bring Out the Artist in Me
      • In Every Universe
      • We're All Racist
      • If You're So Wise, Why Do You Come Off So Passionless?
      • Alcoholism, Parasites, and Trauma in Weapons.
      • How Animal Farm by George Orwell Still Speaks Today
      • Back To The Beginning: The Summer I Turned Pretty Season 1 Review
      • Deathbot Chapter 1
      • Art fight Collection
      • 흑인들이 보낸 것입니다 (This Came From Black People)
      • How To Train Your Hyper-Realistic Live Action Reboot
      • Petty Games
      • The Diary of A Poet
      • Hatchetfield Trilogy Review
      • Guitar Object Study
      • Thunder
      • Lost and Never Found
      • God Bless America
      • Eviscerated
      • Masked
      • Those Girls
      • Why I Follow Jesus
      • The Subjectivity of Creativity: How Wrongful Interpretation is Dangerous
      • Stolen Whispers
      • Blood
      • Class of 2013