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Tabula Rasa

Not blank enough

By K.B. Silver Published 4 months ago 1 min read
Tabula Rasa
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Supposedly – A blank slate

Intentionally fashioned

Purposely created

🎭

A canvas

On which to paint

Ideals

Carry out

Ideas

🎭

If the absence was complete

I wouldn’t have needed

So many

Shiny coats of lacquer

To cover my shame and

Fill in the

Blanks

🎭

I wouldn’t have

A cracked mask

In place

Of the out-of-control face

Deemed an irredeemable

Disgrace

Seen as twisted and

Distracting from the

Points driven race

🎭

My voice sent to the

Fiery pits of

Shrill

Sentenced to life

Behind bars of social grace

🎭

Set free on grounds of

Incurable insanity

Heads shaking

In a shower of sighs

There’s nothing

To be done

🎭

I was born to

suffer born to

The life of the other

Because I ask too many

Questions and

Question too many

Answers

K.B. Silver

ElegyMental Healthsad poetrysocial commentary

About the Creator

K.B. Silver

K.B. Silver has poems published in magazine Wishbone Words, and lit journals: Sheepshead Review, New Note Poetry, Twisted Vine, Avant Appa[achia, Plants and Poetry, recordings in Stanza Cannon, and pieces in Wingless Dreamer anthologies.

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  • Mother Combs4 months ago

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