Shaken Not Stirred

anticipation
cradled in the arms
           of hope
lies in wait
      in the aisles
of the innocent mind;
so frail
steadily eroded
        by experience,
riffled by
    the wind of reality,
rebuked by
   a negative word
Copyright © | Year Posted 2017

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