Shayna Earnest Poet Free verse

The Blues

like my daddy says,
it's just like ringing a bell

and sundrenched guts
wrought with pain
spill out onto the page

just to claim their existence

it tolls just in time
to mark the moments
in which we can
lay claim
to the
hurt

and recognize the 
various substances
in which those
feelings
are formed
and felt again
and again
even years later

ones from past times
that lay dormant
yet unforgotten

ones in which the spirit
was bruised
not broken

ones from recent history
and the ever present past

ones that have
reshaped and shifted
the inviolate truths
we have tried to hold dear

the feelings that are held in
masked with smiles 
accompanied by averted eyes 

feigned indifference
feelings denied or forced
and constantly
loathed for their presence

ones that surface when
we are least expecting
which force our beings
to their proverbial knees

i am now kneeling
prostrate to the ebb and flow
of constant heartbreaks and stabs
from the inner heart
and external world i have
managed to create

you can't hide yourself
from yourself
but it is easy to hide
from others.

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