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Trapped

December 14, 2023
By mathews13 PLATINUM, Hartland, Wisconsin
mathews13 PLATINUM, Hartland, Wisconsin
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O generous one, instruct my life.

Look down and preach to me

your ludicrous script. 

Tug my strings, my feathers.


I am a stone:

worn but ever stoic. 


My ultramarine force, modest 

against your eternal light, divine deity. 

Lorn soul still a cobalt flame:

disintegrating but never dead. 


Assumed to be the malleable marionette 

of the savior savant. 


Looking back, I see my mistakes: 

Trust over mistrust. Faith over query.


Never again will I fall down.

Never again will I fall victim.

Never again will I fall apart.


The author's comments:

This is an ekphrastic poem written about Aleta Ross-Steward's "Disintegration" (2020)


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