I
am a huge lie
there is me and
the sea
she is vast, an expert at pushing away her worries and keeping her sands dry
but I-- I am a neat ugly human with emotions I call "fashionable clothes"
I hide
or I cower
we are at odds what we are
at what they think I am
I believe I have come quite far
but it's a belief and only an inkling of a belief
an untruth
all the same
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©VioletEden
18thMarch2017
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Vermillion
PoetryI have been surviving the past few years, counting on my hands, the days taking me, to the impending end. I will not. I will not sacrifice my hands anymore for something so sacrilegious. I color my hands with Vermillion, rub the pages of my noteboo...