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Poetry, A Requiem Zachary Phillips Poetry, A Requiem Zachary Phillips

escape their fate

 

souls entwined
with a desire
to escape their fate

ancestors
collectively mourning
lost childhoods

disparate people
drawn together
by shared suffering

stumbling
forward
into a new life

fleeing their pasts
unwittingly creating
their futures

they know
what not to do
but not what to do

attempting to avoid
the same mistakes
their parents made

desperately praying
for their children
to escape their fate


 
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Poetry, bound to the wings Zachary Phillips Poetry, bound to the wings Zachary Phillips

Memory Violation

 

Brain oscillation,
No concentration,
Thought invasion,
Constant rumination,
Memory violation,
Past commiseration,
Unwanted stimulation,
Apologetic compensation,
Fleeting determination,
Hypocritical deliberation,
Personality creation,
False presentation,
Total ostentation,
Needing defibrillation.


This poem is from the book Bound To The Wings Of A Butterfly

 
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