Retract This Day

If we account
compulsion renders us
tame
A haze engulfs unwitting
thoughts
Of seers our mazy lives
tire

If we speak
our crude torment ensues
Corrected speech and
chains resume
Of grief a woven tale
will craft

If not
we must this day retract...
Copyright © | Year Posted 2019

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