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Perusing Poet's Pandemic Prose (re-post)

Perusing poet’s pandemic prose

A question in my mind arose

Angst aside what have they got

Ill tell you friend

It’s not a lot

Excuses for the lives they lead

Plant the idea

Nurture the seed

 

Willing victims succumb to their charm

Understandingly

Unerringly

Blind to the harm

The harm of a contrived reality

Dressed up as spirituality

Pretence of a world that doesn’t exist

Sensibility shrouded in gullible mist

 

Hurt worn as a badge of pride

Careful it’s not misapplied

Lest they see your

Jekyll and Hyde

Wary what’s put out in rhyme

Slowly ******* you in

One at a time

 

Once the carrot is gobbled up

Once they drunkest from the cup

No holds barred

The game is on

Universally singing the same old song

 

This life I lead has ****** me dry

Left me often wondering why

Life lived only on the edge

Carefully honouring the kudos pledge

Passion intense is

Their line of defence

Bruised and battered

Tattered and torn

Eternally waiting for life to return

 

So…Readers beware of the poets lure

Their chosen words are not the cure

This Forum is their new aged lair

In shadows waiting to ensnare

Whilst drowning in narcissistic despair

 

You’re a fragile soul

With a fragile life

And they will wield their pen

Like a well butchered knife

 

So please… do not believe that you are The One

You are merely a chapter in a story that’s already begun

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Written by
bathsheba
English
Published
Feb 9, 2011
Lines·Words
48·240
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