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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind
#993630 added September 18, 2020 at 2:34am
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All Along...
Just for this moment
I get it, Emily --
how a poet needs solitude
to consider these things
unheard above a din --
at the kitchen table --
down the busy hall --
out in the street humming
beyond the malls and restaurants
and places where people
are conforming to bright
distractions and incessant
conversations about: color of hair,
style of wear, tabloids shouting out
beware of celebs everywhere

I see your reclusion and admit
I cannot get away from it
even in this opaque room
where they wheeled me in
fourteen years ago
on life support, thinking
I'll die if I don't write a novel

and one by one, I shut out
each distraction  until
I had no friends at all.
Ahhhhh,
or is that me sighing because
I could not escape the one thing
that's been holding me back

all along...

I'm walking away now.

But, I will be back.

My brain is fists for their pillow

that they kindly don't employ to snuff me out.

9.18.20

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