Colin Mitchell Williams Poet Free verse

Threshold

Threshold



Weary of being yanked and slapped 
From pillar to post
From pillory between judgement
Dragged between moral and conceit

How the bated bear on its chain
Dances

Tossed piggy in the middle
Games for some higher power
Just so they can enjoy their meal
Salted and peppered on my soul
A tasty 
Dainty
Of a
Morsel

Stand between
Lucifer and Jehovah
While they play on these puppet strings
Jerk me this way
Pull me that
And toy like children
The bitches both
Deprive me

How the bated bear on its chain
Dances

A little quick step fox trot 
Of doubt and torment
Of love and happiness
Of faith and lies
Through an individual life
To appease a jealous little point
Made between Devils and Gods

I stand on the threshold
And turn my back
On them both

My own father
Proof of their sick little joke

How the bated bear dances
On its chain

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Brandy Megens July 3, 2009 at 11:28 AM soooo amny emotions my friend you are so versatile in your writing thanks for all the comments you leave have a happy forth

Charmaine Chircop July 2, 2009 at 1:23 PM mixed emotions,ups and downs,happiness and sorrow,loved and used, yet faith stronger than all these emotions-forever--wonderfully penned----------charma