Points To Ponder

Medicated
with points of glory

this defensive calm
vaccinates against
the moments in life
that challenge
my will to live,
my instinct to survive...

held together 
by pins of denial
when I could have sewn the seams
with the needles 
of brutal life
and threads of earthly hope.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2009

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