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Crazy Talking Outloud Ashamed Not Proud

As incredulously the second hand ticks cuckoo tock And malevolent the noon is high I amongst the many few Gaze upon the circumspect Of the floating traveling ghosts slowly moon-walking by Trying best not to reflect the stained glass mirror watching back Drawing their attention to what has gone before Safely entrenched i whisper lie behind 3 locked bolted door Inbetween elongated gulps of breaths to ward away my state of panic from attacks I fuse my thumbs to tack my ears and draw the nearest pillow to hide my masked face If grace and peace are but a death away i steely pray cometh it to take me quickly As i fear the many stones i have thrown throughout my life Are about to come crashing down and through this very prison of windows i have chosen to seek refuge in My skin is crawling so thick with goose bump flesh my body hair is cascading through the basement floor And all for what i do not know nor can explain who what and why i am today I am of my own self creation self made of every bad misguided decision and path taken And given that i have reached and crossover to this point If i was to make my appologies and say im sorry for merely to placate my selfish state of grace A lesser man than even i could ever hate to be shadow I'd expect to be standing cursing me to hell and back Resplendent righteous in the very slippers i failed so miserably to fill

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Date: 7/27/2021 3:12:00 PM
Some wonderful lines here Christopher, paranoia screams off the page, suspicion of the outsiders along with the self, but also fully aware, you’re your own creation, though my thoughts are probably meaningless, in mitigation there are always outside influences that helped shape our lives, cheers David
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Christopher Flaherty
Date: 8/4/2021 1:30:00 PM
Cheers David Ta thanks very much Kindest regards

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