You want to vet my every thought,
Stamp your approval on my mind,
Impose false limits on my dreams.
Minions and yes sayers you bought
Assure, with loyalty, only you shine,
Truncate longing's teensiest gleam.
I shrink myself, sit in your blindspot,
Bask in changelessness enshrined:
Hipster's monopoly, hyped esteem.
Too old, you say, my ways' fraught.
I stow, conceding, any radical sign
To appease a fragile ego's scheme.
Even so, I cannot a nimble gavotte
Suppress, nor squash a joy sublime,
As fledglings utter original memes.
Guileless voices, freedom of thought,
With genuine inspiration they chime,
And by so doing, oke's odium redeem.
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Magpie Pearls
Poetry~ This poetic journey started when I began questioning why I write poetry. The assumption I'd come across pearls of wisdom to impart is quickly challenged by readers of "Magpie Pearls", leading me to explore truth in a broader sense. Is truth univer...
