Take one step and I’ll strike.
You may believe me scarred…
Think whatever you like.
Others before have tarred
My world with their lies.
Don’t care to explain
Coercions in disguise.
Presumptions all, are vain.
Don’t touch me. Keep away.
Can’t stand to have you near.
Can’t bear it. Do not stay.
Won’t freeze again in fear.
I’ll tear you piece by piece
If followed one more time.
If still in doubt, know this:
I’ll bite with more than rhyme.
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Wow! Deliciously vicious.
You comment reads like a white rhyme! Thank you 🙂
I rhyme most of the time except after nine when I write sublime.
Haha! Excellent – now that is delicious 😀
😄
The rythm remembered me of an Indigo 😉
An Indigo? Now I am curious… must research 🙂
That’s a vicious mythological creature, which feeds first on inner negative emotions and hatred and then it turns someone into something kinda like a werewolf or something like this 😀
But what i meant is that the rythm is brutal and synchronizes with the message well. I am not able to think in words so i always think in pictures 😉 that’s why i made the relation
That’s beautiful and very powerful imagery. Thank you for taking the time to explain. I haven’t come across that mythological creature before, hence the curiosity to know more. When I think of indigo, I always think of the colour. So I suppose it is an image, just not quite the one you meant. Growing to love the connection. 🙂
ups i mean a wendigo ^^ sorry i always mess these two words up
A wendigo! No wonder the search gave me nothing first time around. Thank you, chojibain. I can now see the light – or the darkness rather 😉
really enjoyed this. wonderful.
Thank you, Erika. Very pleased you liked it.
Strong
Thank you. I tried to twine strength and vulnerability, and whilst there is fear, also a determination to overcome it.
I can very much relate to the combination of fear and resilience, strength & compassion / tenderness.
We all tend to be amalgams of opposites. I think this is why addressing subjects like these comes with certain difficulties, but also why the result always feels more honest in revealing those inner tensions. Thank you.
And thank you.
🙂
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breathtaking
touched. thank you.
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Ah, the meter. Love the meter.
Thank you, navigator. It is a strange symbiosis between meter and creative process when it comes to poetry for me. The metre always finds me rather than the other way around.
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