Margaret Alice Second Poems

Have you noticed we need explanations for
everything, doesn’t matter how fantastic or
absurd because we’ll never have peace until
explication is given, even if one of absolute
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Noise decibels reaching critical levels usually makes
me realise, but too late; a colleague has moved into
line with me, taking down a bookcase screen, filling
space necessary to separate us. I should have been
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A self-discipline deficiency negatively influences
my self-esteem - compounded by lack of listening
skills - carry magazines when attending meetings;
cannot even listen to OWN consciousness stream
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I've forgotten what it means when only one
person is allowed to live, the implications of
only you allowed to have your experience, the
rest of us are fools, complete nitwits claiming
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Jihad and genocide demand total submission - and
liberal ideals are irrelevant in regions where politics
are based on totalitarian religion, the Islamist threat
is spreading fundamentalism across the Middle East
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A soft dim light in my cave as
more lights are switched off
to cool down this space and
save power to boot, the one
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Dense grey clouds of sadness covering the sun,
the weather reflects the sad feelings of humans
returning to work, soft rain falling like the secret
tears of those who frolicked in the sun and now
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The New Year unfolds within the same safe
routines and calm evenings, kids ignoring us,
a colleague discussing a terrible Christmas,
crying, hyperactive family visiting - while
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Final destination, final revelation by my dear
kind physiotherapist; why he didn't give me
exercises resulting in remonstrations at my
recalcitrance to move my imprisoned foot
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Inspirational ideas strengthen me while the
enactment of people's scary fantasies saps
my strength leaving emptiness & a sense of
futility as tragic realism causes depression;
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