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Crickets

The sun's blazing heat rippling through

The leaves of the tall oak outside my window.

 

I, sitting here under the fans don't feel it.

Nature is a stranger to me, kept away

By the harsh metal columns which

Hold up this society, keeping me in the shade.

Stranger to the heat.

 

Escape.

Into the wilderness,

I break the judgmental glass and join my

Ancestors.

Nymphs who dwell in the beautiful oak

Outside my window.

 

Feel, the confinement thrown at me by

The sun,

Holding me in.

Showing me my unfortunate place,

So weak, so vulnerable.

 

The incessant chatter of the crickets, taunting

Me.

Stranger.

Unwelcome.

Abolish me from my natural home.

 

There stand the muse of our modern society.

Gregariously reminding

Us of how we can never escape

The chatter and

The heat.

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Jul 10, 2011
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