What happens to a guilt deferred?
Does it linger
Like a rancid stench in the air?
Or fade away,
Like the color in your hair?
Does it burn down the scene?
Like an inferno -
Your conscience doused in gasoline.
Maybe it just grows,
Like grass waiting to be mowed.
Or like a Peep in a microwave, does it explode?
Does it linger
Like a rancid stench in the air?
Or fade away,
Like the color in your hair?
Does it burn down the scene?
Like an inferno -
Your conscience doused in gasoline.
Maybe it just grows,
Like grass waiting to be mowed.
Or like a Peep in a microwave, does it explode?
This piece has been published in Teen Ink’s monthly print magazine.
Bloody
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