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I Just Sat In Silence

misinterpreted colors
refurbish occurred development

it only takes a second
(sh*it is usually measured in irrelevant moments)
it's always a second
standing in front of a choice
engulf the crap or
stream it straight at that mirror
aiming my sapience with furnished bugs eyes

by ease they are pouring deluded circular reasoning
making the bathtub
where I can peacefully drown in

stating how you're entitled to life
the child has overtaken 
a role of my backpack

(so I can drown easily)

your child

sitting on my shoulders
while that entitlement to life
is covering my lungs
and mucous curtains
are obscuring coughed words

but I can scrutinize how your brain
is not at the right place
like there’s too much space
and it is out of the ledge
bumping at the surfaces of your skull
still 
can’t pacify your behavior
with tissue suppression

too many times
I have rolled over
like a dog

this time 
I’ll just sit in a silence
and leave you
by the road

Copyright © | Year Posted 2019




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Date: 4/16/2019 7:02:00 PM
"the bathtub where I can peacefully drown". Love it!
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Sanja Cokolic
Date: 4/17/2019 12:34:00 PM
Thank you :)
Date: 4/10/2019 1:19:00 PM
Wrapped in layers of quite profound mood and imagery. Excellent poem.
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Sanja Cokolic
Date: 4/11/2019 8:35:00 AM
Thanks for reading :)
Date: 3/27/2019 8:18:00 PM
Enjoying your work. It has an element of the surreal. Great pen.
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Sanja Cokolic
Date: 3/28/2019 3:45:00 AM
Thank you for the reading and commenting. It means a lot :)
Date: 3/24/2019 6:33:00 AM
Very sad and heart breaking poem...
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Sanja Cokolic
Date: 3/24/2019 6:46:00 AM
Thank you.

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