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Soul-4

A Poem

By Atomic HistorianPublished about a year ago Updated about a year ago 1 min read
Soul-4
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Time to pay the toll

With your fragile soul

Life unwinding like a scroll

Why do I think in rhyme

Sometimes

It’s all that comes to mind

It makes this sound like a fake stream of consciousness

Sometimes I feel cursed with this

Others I feel blessed

When others talk about writing like its a math test

Something to sweat over

Perhaps writing is my clover

A charm

I use to disarm the harm

Of living on this pain farm

An animal trying to escape my captivity

But no one sees this place as an enemy of our soul

So I drone on and on

Singing the same old sad song

Nothing is right

But our wings are clipped to keep us from flight

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Atomic Historian

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