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The Poet's Conundrum

Ink flows from your fingers

free as falling rain

scripted words

your hands were born to say.

 

Gilded words drip out your mouth

like morning dew from leaves -

silver stories

your tongue was made to tell.

 

Lines of prose haunt your eyes -

a whisper on the wind,

things you dare not speak -

too much a part of you to know.

 

Beautiful, endless, flawless language

in everything you are

seeps out of you

as music from a harp.

 

Unending anguish hides in your words -

invisible in plain sight.

There for everyone to see,

but no one to acknowledge.

 

Your soul goes into the words

and you are left alone.

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julia-burden
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Published
Jan 24, 2011
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