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Self-Destruct
April 5, 2014
Before,
My self-destruction
Never hurt
Anyone
But myself.
But now,
The bomb has resurrected into something
Dangerous;
It
Tick
Tick
Ticks
Relentlessly
By our hearts.
I tell myself
To hold it in, keep it hidden,
So that afterward,
When the ticking stops,
No one gets
Hurt
By
The shrapnel.
© Michael D., Hawthorne, NY
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Nightowlwriter BRONZE said...
on Apr. 11 2014 at 9:25 am
Great poem, the kind you through against the wall then pick back up again.
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