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The untangled knot

Sitting alone in a chair not a throne

Ideas spewing like ooze under a city

Spinning a web, a line and a ditty

Yet still alone

 

Offering everything to give

Somethings just got to give

Yet unreciprocated

To be unmet and unloved

 

Forward thinking but sinking all the same

Life's but a ruin if left untamed

An endevour to help, exuding calm

But there's no answer,...

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The Privileged walk

Scuffing leaves on the ground

With no other soul anywhere around

Hands in my pocket, keeping warm

My feelings swell to an indignant storm

 

Life at home isn't quite right

The yelling and shouting gives me a fright

"Best apart" says my instinct

But it's not like me to kick up a stink

 

Night times leave me cold, fearful and small

Ear to the glass, glass to the floor

...

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lonelynesslonelydomestic abusesadignored

Afterthought

Busy team

Hustling and bustling

Opinions jostling 

Fighting for position

 

Striving, determined and strong

Never once are we wrong

Volume intensifying

Voices increasing and thriving


The noise groans in to view

The minds spew an acid stew

Passing the time until the end

Every foe and every friend 

 

We are the lost ant in an army

The child forgotten aft...

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