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Wild thing

May 15, 2015
By Christy_Winters SILVER, Does It Matter?, Other
Christy_Winters SILVER, Does It Matter?, Other
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Favorite Quote:
"So I began to think maybe it was true that when you are married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterwards you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state." - Sylvia Plat, The Bell Jar


You saw a wild thing.
Reckless and alive with freedom –
and you killed her.
You poisoned her with your selfish intent!
She was untamed.
Uncultivated by society –
But you fabricated a rope of suburbia
and fastened it around her neck.

Her rhythmic heart was a storm of unpredictability –
And now it has been encased with societal sensibility.

Her eyes, which were wondrously bright –
have now dulled down
with a loss of spirit.
A loss of fight.

Her lungs, which used to breathe in diversity and defiance –
suffocated with restrictions,
cut with the jagged edge of compliance.

Her hair, which was once rattled by the wind –
Is now tied back by rules and regulations.

You saw a wild thing and desired to control her,
You gave into your dark temptations.

You saw a wild thing -
You tamed her.
You broke her.
You killed her.



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