Thursday, 22 September 2016

Hierarchies In Poetry

The Centre is infected ,

It goes around itself, whilst outside all seek what they reject,

Once the Janus Man would cry tears, and smile at the same time,

Then he chose to sleep, and so they supped his sickness unto him.

Now he only smiles, and so we all smile,

The Janus Man cries not to be heard, for his smile already speaks volumes,

And whilst the centre pretends all is fine, outside it is not,

For poems speak and are discarded,

Because sometimes they refuse an audience,

And so as they drown unheard,

You reach out, and your hand is pushed away,

Your colours run so bright they are despised by their glowing truth,

Your words are inaudible, and even if they were clarified,

No one could pronounce them,

The Centre is infected, yet we believe outside all is pure,

The purity, of friendship, love, family and the cross upon the hill,

Yet when these seem to fade, we turn to expressions of literature,

Hoping one day the centre will die of it's own septic irrelevance,

And hopefully we will be heard and above all understood


The End

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