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Redstart
Senior Member

since 2014-05-16

Posts 535

0 posted 2016-08-03 05:07 PM

I'm getting frustrated, uneasy.
I'm losing a brain cell or two;
one naturally, the other donated.
Yet, what I've lost is nothing,
nothing at all in comparison.
But something has gone,
and I can't get it back.
Can't find comfort with a pen;
I write, but the cathartic wizard
won't come to call.

I'm lost, disengaged.
I feel like a plastic spatula
in a bunch of aromatic roses,
and I'm not even the same colour.
I'm boxed in, captive to compliance.
I'm cornered by sheepdogs,
keen to pen my reluctance to conform.
Conformity was never my metier;
I'm disturbed by hands that seek to shape me.
I'm generally satisfied with my shape,
and resent the eager hands at the potter's wheel.

I'm trying to stir up some passion,
but I'm stuck in a stodgy gloop;
bogged down and ineffective.
My every action is being analysed,
trimmed to suit some glorious norm
of which I want no part.
I'm increasingly detached from
the beliefs and actions of others,
my arrogance fuelled by their perceived belligerence.

I've had enough of piranhas in the hot tub;
a fish supper's in order!
Catch a lizard by the tail,
and all you'll have is its tail!

Peace.

How I need a kindred spirit,
I've been my own for too long.
But hey, welcome to my world,
you grace me with your presence.
Put down your sword,
I have an olive branch at hand.

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

1 posted 2016-08-03 05:25 PM

Except for the fact that old age is kicking my butt more and more each day, I have found that peace you want so badly. But my friend, I have been where you are not too long ago. Bear with it my friend, things will get better. In fact from the tone of last few lines of your so-called rant I don't think you are in such funk.

P.S: I'm alone too.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2016-08-03 08:27 PM

Way to let it out! That was great! I hear you about the kindred spirit. hugs ~L

Ari Squire
Member
Posts 488
In The Phallus Lane

3 posted 2016-08-04 12:39 PM

quote:
"Conformity was never my metier;
I'm disturbed by hands that seek to shape me.
I'm generally satisfied with my shape,
and resent the eager hands at the potter's wheel"

Well said Red.

Loving Linny Jean is poetry.

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