THE RUMOR
RUMORS USUALLY BEGAN BY SOMEONE SO FIXATED ON ANOTHER PERSONS LIFE IT COULD BEGAN ON THE SCHOOL YARD SOMETHING AS SMALL AS BEING JEALOUS THAT YOUR CLASSMATE HAS A SHINING NEW INK PEN WITH A BIG PINK FLOWER ON IT AND JEALOUS AWAKENS STRAIGHT INTO ENVY AS EVERYONE ANNOUNCES HOW BEAUTIFUL THIS PEN IS WHERE DID YOU GET IT YOU ALWAYS HAVE NICE THINGS I WISH I HAD NICE THINGS CAN I SIT BY YOU IN CLASS DO YOU MIND IF I HOLD YOUR PEN THIS TYPE OF ENVY TURNS QUITE DEALY DEVIOUS IN FACT THIS PERSON HAS CREATED A HATRED FOR THE PERSON WHO OWNS THE PEN GETTING ALL THIS ATTENTION LIKE HAVING A NEW POCAHONTAS DOLL NO ONE ELSE HAS EVER SEEN THE PERSON IS NO LONGER SMILING ITS A SMIRK AS THEY BEGAN TO SPREAD A RUMOR NOT BIG AT ALL NOT EVEN AFFECTIVE UNTIL ITS SPREAD TO A CERTAIN TYPE OF BEHAVIOR WITH ABSOLUTELY NO LIFE NO ENGERY FLOWS THIS GIVES LIFE TO THE RUMOR NOW MAKING THE PERSON WHO SPREAD THE RUMOR FEEL SOMEWHAT IMPORTANT WHY FINALLY THEY ARE RECIEVING ATTENTION FROM JUST SPREADING A LIE THE LIE CONTINUES TO GROW A LIFE OF ITS ON WHY ON THE BUS STOP IN THE GROCERY STORE CHATTER CHATTER THE RUMOR SOON BECOMES A NEIGHBORHOOD FOLK LORE CHANGING FORMS BY EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER HEARD THE LIE TURNED RUMOR TURNED FOLKLORE IS IN THE MENS ROOMS THE LADIES LOCKERS SLIDING DOWN PRISON WALLS FOOD FIGHTS RIOTS ANGRY PERSONS WHO HAVE NOW BEEN SPREADING A RUMOR THAT THEY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT BECAUSE THE RUMOR WAS A FULL BLOWN LIE BLOWN OUT OF CONTROL BY ENVY SLANDER A PERSON WITH NO DIRRECTION BITTER ANGRY JEALOUS OF A SHINING NEW INK PEN THAT THEY NEEDED TO DESTROY TO TAKE THE ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE PERSON THEY CREATED THE RUMOR ABOUT OTHERS BEGAN DRIFTING REALIZING HOW MANY YEARS THEY'VE BEEN PARTICIPATING IN SPREADONG SLANDER HATRED RUMORS THE RUMOR BEGANS TO DIE BUT THE PERSON WHO BEGAN THE LIE KNOWS THE ATTENTION THEY GOT FROM SPREADING THE RUMOR WOULD DIE THE ENTIRE TOWN HAS NO LIFE NO BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS NO BIRDS SINGING NO LAUGHTER ONLY LIES RUMOR ALLEY SPREADING LIES TO CREATE A FISADE OF LIVING MANY RUMORS DESTROY LIVES ENVY OVER A NEW CAR NEW PAIR OF SHOES LIES SLANDER BEGANS RUMOR HAS A LIFE OF ITS OWN AMAZING WHAT A HORRIBLE PLACE TO LIVE WHERE NOTHING GROWS THERE EXCEPT THE RUMORS SPREAD BY THE TOWNS PEOPLE SOUP KTICHENS CHATTER LIES SLITHERING TONGUES FALSE PROFITS FALSE DOCTRINES FALSE FRIENDSHIP HATRED IS CAPTURED MOLDED INTO CONCRETE STATUES KELP ALIVE SO NO LOVE COULD EVER GROW A PLACE WHERE RUMORS DESTROY LIVES REMOVE SMILES WHERE EVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL LOSES ITS SHINE DRIVEN INTO DARKNESS WHILE THE RUMOR LIVES ON LANDING ON ANOTHER BY STANDER SPITTING COUGHING UP BLOOD OF LIES SPINNING WEAVING FOLKLORES DISCORD IN ORDER TO FEEL IMPORTANT TO MAKE SOMEONE ELSE FEEL SMALL RUMORS ARE CAREFULLY DELIBERATELY PLANTED TO DESTROY DREAMS TO GIVE THE RUMOR STARTER ATTENTION A LIFE DEFAMATION OF CHARACTER SLANDER ALL BECAUSE ENVY JEALOUSLY WANTING SOMEONE ELSES LIFE NOT KNOWING OR NOT CARING EVERYONE HAS PROBLEMS EVEN THOSE WITH SHINING NEW INK PENS NEW DOLLS NEW CARS NEW SHOES EVERYBODY BLEEDS RED AND EVERYBODY DIES BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER STOP SPREADING RUMORS IN THE END THE PERSON WHO.BEGAN SPREADING THE RUMOR IS DEEPLY TROUBLED ENVIOUS DEADLY ENVY THOSE WHO KELP THE RUMOR ALIVE HAS ABSOLUTELY NO LIFE THIS RUMOR KEEPS THEM IN THE KNOW IN THE NOW OF THIS LIE THAT BECAME A CANCER KILLING CREATIVE MINDS TRAPPED BY A RUMOR TURNED FOLKLORE KEEP SMILING KEEP SHINING NEVER ALLOW RUMORS TO HINDER YOUR DREAMS THERE REALLY ARE LEPRECHAUNS
Copyright © Yolanda Nicholsen | Year Posted 2025
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