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heavy shades

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reality is holding my coward eyes  
open wide with clamps of steel  
I wear the heavy shades  
the ones you need in Florida  
or Himalayan snows  
and yet my coward retinas burn  

those hateful patterns  
decay and death on the movie screens of mind  
how I wish for selective blindness without consequence  
how I wish for faultless folly  

how I wish I could hold my head up high again
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MagicClare's avatar
Thoughtful, indeed...