Anna Hopper Poet Free verse

Unshakable

Unshakable shame
Quite strange to explain
 I lather and rinse
It circles the drain
It goes where I go
We’re one in the same
I’m eager to lead
But it holds the reigns 
It grants me no gain
It will not be tamed
 A life spent in fear
Only I am to blame

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Richard Lamoureux September 25, 2019 at 9:22 AM Shame has been with us for a long time. Adam and Eve hid themselves from God when they realized they were naked. Most of us are acquainted with our emotional nakedness. We as poets are more apt to expose ours. Through the showing of our nakedness we achieve a freedom of sorts.

Gershon Wolf August 28, 2019 at 5:15 PM Don't know how autobiographical this is, but it certainly resonates with me... What is most alarming is that I have passed on my shame and my fears, which so limited me in life, to one of my four children. My heart sinks as I watch him struggle. Provocatively penned, gw

Chris Green August 28, 2019 at 11:34 AM Kind of sad in a way. Fear and worry have a way of taking us down. This was deep and lonely feeling but very nicely written and expressed.