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Camille Dawnier's avatar

Brooks, I was not planning to indulge in your prompt as I don't usually write poetry, but it scribbled itself and I really enjoyed the process. I hope you'll enjoy the outcome ;)

"It’s"

Framed, with only one chance of exit

A perimeter for me to exist

Geometric, way more rigid than

me on my hardest days

A host to the unanimated

A provider of sorts

My stage with no shows

A place where I get lost

A reminder, a gate keeper

Impermeable.

Not a flow, it prefers to stand.

A forest of bricks

All the secrets I disseminate

A kingdom with no subjects

Crumbling when I crumble

A choice of blocking life,

blocking the light.

How I tune out, zone out, blow out.

It's me, with corners,

comfortable dead ends

A song to make me dance

in circles and repeated rhythms

That we both know by heart.

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Brooks Lampe's avatar

That’s great! Is it… your bedroom?

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Camille Dawnier's avatar

It could as well be! I wrote about the broader space that home is.

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