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Time And It's Distractions

By Kelli Sheckler-AmsdenPublished 3 years ago Updated 3 years ago 1 min read

Desolation, disrepair, diamonds from the dust, left there.

Inattention and neglect, from the ashes, resurrect.

Seek to understand the truth, until a door becomes a window - a dance with the unknown, or a smile from a shadow.

Toss a coin, repair/regret, new journeys to be had. Just don't forget to look for good in everything you've had.

Rumbling and whispering, encircles round your head, while mother nature looks for ways to grow up, what's been dead.

Adversities to aversions, actions needed to advance, anything can happen, when you give it half a chance.

Conduits of chaos, controlled balance dressed in lace. There is no conjuring the magic, without some kind of consequence.

Time...a grand illusion. An illusive intermission of distraction. Granting temporary reactions of it's fleeting satisfaction.

Innuendos, speculations, complicate and thrown off course. All defeated, come to see that, we're the ones we cheat the most.

Oceans of mystery remain, calling us to follow. When we finally depart, it's a difficult pill to swallow.

Nature reclaims what was hers, on loan, for just a time. If it weren't for the distractions, we would we miss out on the rhymes.

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Kelli Sheckler-Amsden

Telling stories my heart needs to tell <3 life is a journey, not a competition

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  • Dharrsheena Raja Segarran3 years ago

    Nature reclaims what was hers on loan. I loved that line so much!

  • We'd never take time to hear the rhymes if it weren't for all the distractions. Still letting this settle in as with each passing moment I find another treasure..., & am distracted by it.

  • 𝐑𝐌𝐒3 years ago

    I love this! Well done!

  • Judey Kalchik 3 years ago

    So clever, the poem includes so many couplets, making two lines into one and painting the entire story.

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