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Gleeful Impediments

A typical day.....

By Shannon FeltnerPublished 10 months ago 1 min read

They are there

again

They shouldn’t be

but there

they are

Forbidding passage

is amusing for

them now

Was it

always so?

I cannot

remember

The life before

me is me now

The life before

me then is gone

Will it always

be so?

They are laughing

side by side

though

They are like

old friends

Whispers among

them spoken

loudly

Are they meant

to be kept

secret?

Conspiracies spoken

best left unheard

confuse the mind

To take them

seriously,

fail

To dismiss them,

fail

To ignore them,

try

To embrace them,

win

A small victory

it may be

‘Tis a victory

nonetheless

Embrace them,

welcome the

roadblocks

They do not

make tyrants

They make

knights and

kings

They, themselves,

are saviors

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