Misplaced within terminology
Care to stop and stare?
Even though your span is cut short
Sit haughty inside your plum covered walls
Superimpose wit with newborn ignorance
I feel you prickle beneath my membrane
Boring irritants into my nervous structure
Clenching
Gnawing
Craving notice with cryptic verbs and idioms
Continuous to hide in your reclusive ways
Aseptic smiles curdle ivory webs
Crumple your desires into a pictorial mosaic
Line your mind’s basin with fossilized clichés
Drown the senses of self
Smothering eccentricity with cookie-cutter dreams
Find falsities in what you have learned
Taste a smell
Hear a touch
See the embodiment of being photogenic
Hyphens, dashes, slashes, dividends
I taught a thought
Sifting through what was once my salvation
Your Christ
Your God
Your religious idols and monarch saints
Deny the existence of my freewill
No confines
No order
No faction
No rationale
Proliferating grime atop my tongue
Gagging on words makes me nauseous
I discern that I am not understood
Author notes
Dispelled angst
A contest entry
- Shatter by CarolDesjarlais.
525 points, ended April 30, 2008, 13 entries
Bronze trophy winner
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Very compellign write..how often I have felt the same such thing... but I got over them and msyelf long enough to rmeember to fly.. thank you so much for entering this... Nice far-edge write.
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Thank you for your kind words and I am glad you were able to find relation in my words. However, I am sorry you found relation in the negative feelings too.
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