8/4/2025 for J with Four Options Poetry Contest sponsored by Constance La France
Shall I embark on a dangerous journey - into the realm within? I pretend to know it, but it is largely unexplored. Much of it abandoned and forgotten, cordoned off and forsaken, with signs that say, "Warning: Keep Out". Deep caves and winding caverns, hide a variety of ogres and fiends: the monsters of memory, the demons of despair, the devils of desire and disappointment, the dark angels of anger and abuse. Could it be that among these treacheries, I might also discover overlooked hidden treasures: vulnerability, kindness and empathy and, just maybe, even the forgotten capacity to love?
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