INTIMIDATION
(The Ugly Side Of Pride)


female.

desire.

lit.

fire.

there is a Pit here.
would you like to join?

campground of silent sound,
a world, encompassed, voiced.

your own.

‘til an interloper
interrupts your presence.
expel, expel,
move on ..

with resonance.

a knife is the thing
that holds my keyboard up.
but it intones my words,
tells me when i’ve had enough.

a leaving.
a breathing.

get that aberration out of my face.
i wish it well, and the poison it embraced.

i can’t carry that.
it hurts my heart, my soul.

the crippling.
the diction.

too much to enfold.

just - go away.
leave my hearth, my home.

i wish you well, but elsewhere;
let me care for what i own.

honor.  understanding.  simpatico, held.
even as the venom comes spitting
from the guilt of the unfelt.

Reason could be branded;
each One has their say.

so the exclamations bristle
when you are not the same.

the only impetus you know
is what is carried Inside;
intimidation only begets a sad, lost pride.


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