Laughter meets anger halfway at portal to the outside Keeper of secrets or supposed Good Samaritan Cannot leap out of the pain caused by unfulfilled desires Yet craving trust above all else Tiresome untruths escape from wild imagination To concoct a virtual reality for sensitive eyes and ears For the weak-hearted and closed-minded Taboo fires raging under young skin Scorching hearts know only of desire Igniting hotter when suffocated Burning stronger when unopposed Slowly and steadily becoming perceptible To the authoritarian Presupposing cryptic significance Surreally comparable to truth Grandmother's intuition Constant suffocation Thief who steals breath of life Sighing breezes of warmth and friendship Unjustly taken from lips still warm with kisses And arms vacant for only a brief moment Intercepted by jealousy Lost control Unaware of selfishness imposed On a life prepared for second flight Barely touching down between landing and take-off Stripping away bitter tastes Leaking vital life Information kept secret To protect the courageous Underground, under wraps Under short fingernails Scraping against dusty chalkboards Screeching shudders through porcupine spines Hedgehogs scurrying to nowhere Misdirected dreams once again Debilitated by an emotionally handicapped Hearing and hating Grievances solely derived from an undisciplined teenager
Reason for writing:
This poem basically came from a strange stream of consciousness. Needless to say, I was feeling a little bitter about the authority figures in my life (namely, my parents)
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