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10/7/2017 7:26:13 AM

Donna Loughman
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Passages

unrhymed quatrain

The cutting wind that bellows and then whispers
deceiving in it's lull only to cut through and back when we turn
memories awakened and transported in irreversible succession
shifting the moments played out as unworthiness clasps the frozen images

Impatient as the sequence of events flashes in the mind
an inescapable prison with no jailer
the definitive continued progression of bygone sentiment plays havoc
part secret, part statement, the past truth haunts deeply dark

Redundant buying, selling, and bartering for emotions devitalizes
as the bully beats down any feelings for remorse
adulation becomes the bitter routine of nothingness
a new found path beckons with the dispassionate pureness of sterility

Rejoicing in the decadencey of not caring and pure unshakable freedom
the wind can blow never turning as the branches it breaks fall
mourning comes then anger in an unretractable moment blazes into light
the tree will remain long after the careless wind moves on

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