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    Willow posted in the group National Poetry Month

    1 week ago

    Insidious

    I’m willing to sacrifice myself
    to prove the truth
    of my words
    of me

    are you willing to do the same?

    lies…
    in time…
    will be uncovered
    and everyone will see

    the scuttling
    ear to ear
    insidiously whispering
    it will be seen

    I have never changed

    eventually they’ll know
    and perhaps remember
    but it will be too late
    because after all…
    they believed
     
    (that sudden intake of breath
    causing a sharp clench in your chest…
    that…
    is called your conscience…
    you should listen to it sometime)

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    • I think that perhaps the question might be, do they have a conscious to listen to?? Often the conscious is suppressed by the ego of self, and thinking that self is the be all and end all of everything. Hell, it’s even written into the Constitution… ‘the pursuit of happiness’. My happiness versus your happiness. What an “insidious” way to live!! Thanks for sharing your poem Willow. -Curt

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