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bad poetry

I told myself every idea was *******

just white noise sloshing in my head,

until I could bury that urge to put pen to paper

knowing

deep down behind the wall of sinew and flesh

pumping oxygen and platelets

deep beneath my skin

I just  hated feeling like this.

I gave up expressing myself,

convinced

of my deaf audience

convinced

that perhaps everything

I did was

worthless,

When I broke my reality

and rose from the ashes fresh glazed

from the fiery kiln of my personal hell

I did not realize I was to experience the most

monumental of my creative acts,

the recreation of myself

in complete solitude.

And perhaps

I'm still a little angry'

and very sad.

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Published
May 16, 2015
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