pro choice
fight or freeze
I said, living only inside my head...
This--my personal subversion
of the light inside I choose to hide--
and anger, my only allies.
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elPintor
Mon 27th Feb 2017 12:46
Thank you kindly, Stu!
lovely little piece. you have a way with brevity that i admire greatly. as someone who simply throws things at the great poetical wall until enough sticks i find it daunting and intelligent.
elPintor
Sun 26th Feb 2017 01:18
elPintor
Sun 26th Feb 2017 00:46
I probably shouldn't laugh, David, but I did. Maybe anyone who does such a good job at hiding their light also secretly harbors the hope that it will eventually make it's way to burning someone else for a change--that's probably where holding on to the anger may eventually serve a purpose.
elP
elPintor
Sun 26th Feb 2017 00:12
You know, you're right, Ray..and thank goodness for that moment. The older I get the more I realize I don't really need to look to others to validate my emotions. Simply put, it's more liberating to "own" them rather than letting them "own" me by dictating how I interact with the world...I'll save my more raw, unmodulated behavior for those "just for me" moments.
Thanks for reading and commenting, Ray and John, and I'm glad you liked it David.
elP
I'll just add another thought to this stimulating short poem elP, which is that often there is a moment when you might feel that to let vent to pure emotion will never have a happy ending, and you keep that in. Which is I think why we are all fascinated by actors in their expressing our own feelings. We obviously have to contain a lot of pressure, otherwise we would be like headless chickens. (Shades of Trump, sorry).
Ray
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elPintor
Tue 28th Feb 2017 00:16
Hah! That's funny, David..
If I ever reach that level of transcendence, though, I've gone too far down a one-way road and I'm never ever going back.
elP
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