Collaboration- The closet door has opened (in poetry)

Who remembered my poetry challenge from classmate and blogger Carisa Lee from The Word Korner? Now, we have taken some time to work on a collaborative effort and managed to muster up some fairly decent poetry. The theme surrounds unveiling the disguise and purging ones self of fear and learning acceptance. I hope you enjoy.

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Like the thunder that shatter a silent night

I am terror, desolation, anxiety

Sometimes it feels like I am laying in a room with limited air; suffocating

I keep hiding from monsters, most imaginary

Fiends I’ve created with shadows so dominant their mere darkness destroys me

Paranoid, my feelings are only in my head

On my knees I crawled into closets,

Built for my protection

But there is no Narnia on the inside

Just me, my self imposed confinement,

I’m open but searching for a master key

Like gun shots that breaks a silent night

Over speculating, shielding my authenticity

I’m corrupted; not ruined

Source unknown

The voices declared the wages of sin is death

My weapon was bestowed on me at birth

I fight skeletons that have long defeated me but my wounds are too deep to heal

I’ve taken satisfaction in pain

Learnt the knack of disguise, invisibility

On chilled evenings so what if I fancy the gentleness of warm legs more than mannish crudeness

And just like thunder, she has awakened me

No longer am I a slave to my sin….

Written by:
K. Drew

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  Written By C.Lee
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