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Circle of Opinion

Opening up choice, optional outlets

Voiced sections of our minds escaped

Safety was in silence; speech impeded

Powerful penned action leaves the

Skull to crack open thought processes

 

Others see into their minds by way of derivation

Interaction captured, swooping into bludgeon

Spat out red remarks dissolving us, turning over

The table of plenty and offending, devaluing self regard

Talking us out of being who we are....yet leaves

 

Replaying the turntable of our minds

Rinsed out mouths might penetrate the circle of

Tight lips, forced shut by silent expectation

Fear and squirming ruling our fingertips, wrapping

Knuckles pressed firmly to the flesh of repression

 

Gold dust sprinkles the high life, cuts short the

Intrinsic pain, lends a hand in the greedy depths

Of finding a way through the webs of sarcasm

The veiling pretence is insidious in flavour

Tastes sweet to the tongue, once swallowed... too late

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laura-susan-smith
English
Published
May 1, 2014
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