This Thrill

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What do I do with this trill?

The stir in my heart

It presses too hard

Yet retreats too soon

The moment I reach out

Gone it goes


Did I wait too long

To snatch the effervescence

From the monster under the bed

Am I doomed

Dead before I begin?


Hands up in protest

Enough with the animosity

Directed into the mirror

There is no creative power

In your story of horror


There is no doom

No written clause

But for what has come and gone


What I do

Is a Mantra Against the Dark

To harness the reverberation

It will carry beyond

Past the fear

Crashing through the doubt

To the place of birth

Rocketed from this earth

To the sky's infinity

Finally gone from gravity


Free

6/18/14
p.s.w.



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