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R.J. Lindley,
July 26th, 1973

Old Note- Edited..
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Total # Words: 125

New Note- A prison is a prison tho its walls be soft, its halls filled with gold and its mirrors reflecting deepest of desired pleasures.
Such occurs when one soul so tragically loves another as to imprison it..
For love, also allows freedom, free will an demands not blinded slavery to its demands.
This poem was written in my youth, when in such a relationship.

Smothered By Love, Imprisoned By Decree

Smothered By Love, Imprisoned By Decree

Forever thus bound by love's deepest vow
living life, well wrapped in soft velvet chains.
Time may yet demand, freedom's walk but how
when washed night and day, by love's falling rain?

Can one unshackle, when chains are skin deep
or rip and tear away from such beauty?
Oft such thoughts can make even a man weep
for failure in life and in his duty.

Those velvet chains tho' soft, are apt to pain
as one's inner soul, they too deeply bound.
Something about it goes against the grain
much as screeching chalk on board's grating sound.

When love so dominates a lover's soul
as to bind, his spirit in agony.
Hath it not thus, defeated its truest goal
savaged all, while birthing his misery?

R.J. Lindley,
July 26th, 1973

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