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Shell
April 5, 2014
Choking on smothering self expectations
Fighting back the urge to collapse
Poison fills your mouth in the form of words
A dark black sludge spills out
A judgmental hand
Suffocates all hope
Of a promising future
The artist destroying it's own masterpiece
Why if we draw our path
Shape the clay of life
Does our art close in
Cutting off the will to prosper
Then hope becomes a four letter word
Our last spark is extinguished
Broken and bruised
We retreat into murky blackness
© Jessica F., Bradford, MA
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