A Poisoned Chalice Poem by Brian Taylor

A Poisoned Chalice



Education
breeds expectation.

Expectation
leads to frustration.

Frustration
is a suicide bomber.

Flowers of the Void
are not so easily destroyed

Insubstantial from the start,
they shine on in each empty heart.

Brian Taylor
Saturday, March 10, 2012
poem poems Frustration education empty shine suicide
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