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Chaos Walking

Unspeakable yet bursting on my tongue.

Keeping slow poison in my heart and knowing the map to potential misery I hold.

My feet steeling themselves for the treacherous path that I still only truly know.

[It's...]

The frozen moment before the window breaks.

[That...Knowing ...]

This jagged rock lies in my pocket--

everything that touches me feels as though it's about to shatter.

The false illusion that I can protect anyone from sadness.

I am  the eye of the storm.

An epicenter of grief.

Ripples in lava. But alas.

 

I have become Pompeii.

And no act of Earth

or sky can stop this.

 

So forward march,

And away we go.

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Written by
f-white
American
Published
Feb 26, 2020
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Copyright fhw 2020

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