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Shade of Voice

Protection

By Katrina ThornleyPublished 5 years ago 1 min read
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There was shadow

Before the sun,

A vast unknown

Broken by shapes and hues,

That we used

To create known images--

Not enough to answer

Questions and orders

Raddled by badges

Ties and thick lip stick--

Voices stunned

When lips parted to reveal

Words in response

To rhetoric of the One.

Our theme of shade

Despair in creation

Twisted things

Into mutated offerings

To ethereal beings

We knew were our equals

But couldn't lower

To our standards

Of hypocrisy and salutes.

Our feet moved

In continued order

Along the horizon

Of light and dark

The blurred gray

Our home---

Until the cliff's end

To blue abyss

Where the light

Revealed only too much

To a nation

Of confused pack followers.

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About the Creator

Katrina Thornley

Rhode Island based author and poetess with a love for nature and the written word. Works currently available include Arcadians: Lullaby in Nature, Arcadians: Wooden Mystics, 26 Brentwood Avenue & Other Tales, and Kings of Millburrow.

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