Open Poetry #34 |
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Minefield of the Mall |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa ![]() |
Poised ready for attack one hand reaches for the latch the other limp and listless, unwilling to obey and face the deadly onslaught of people in the way. Breathe and be a butterfly but it all comes down to knowing I’m absorbent like a sponge and the one behind, in front, a waterfall cascading discomfort and dis-ease. It’s not easy to believe God shields the weaker few when through a minefield walking I am forced to go to celebrate a birthday of one I cannot know. And yet somewhere far beneath life’s trials and tribulations there stirs a little something in corners of my brain to bring into awareness the blessings he displays like me you see in front of you in the middle of your dreams. Still the door is waiting, I turn to run away, but the magnet of necessity, a force to be obeyed, pulls me through the opening as “onward Christian soldiers” the marching beat of poor and weak, plays out inside my head. And isn’t it amazing, I’m back home to tell the tale, and I think someone is telling me It’s okay to live this way on the edge of needing more displays to prove there does exist a magnet of necessity to pull me through the opening of life after my death! |
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whiskey![]()
since 1999-12-28
Posts 1278Australia |
Nicely written |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Helen I have a phobia ....and the mall is one thing that brings it on big time...you have just proven to me, why. I'm glad you survived! ![]() |
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Honeybunch Member Rara Avis
since 2001-12-29
Posts 7115South Africa |
Thank you whiskey for the read and for commenting. Martie - Hi, I have a lot of theories about things none of which I'm able to prove but we always do survive the trips to the mall so why is the phobia is around? Some things we just can't talk ourselves out of. |
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