Precarious

Lacking, we are reacting 

Unpacking baggage, untapped.

Trapped, we are gasping

Grasping cracks, attacked.

Bleeding, we are reaping

Concealed diseases, unseeing.

Breeding, we are demons

Screaming feelings, reason.

Dying, we are rising

Surviving suicide, reviving.

Horrified, we are fortified

Redefining genocide, rectified. 

Broken, we are choking

Holding focus, chosen.

Swollen, we are bloated

Muted gloating, noted.

Abused, we are misused

Inducing confusion, bemused.

Deluded, we are taboo

Wounded illusions, ruin.

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[jacob erin-cilberto]

confessional poets unpack baggage....Plath and Sexton often did that....and then go together at a bar in Boston with a guy named George...drank martinis and discussed their suicides.
they wrote about it and wrote about it and wrote about it, but never away from it, only toward it...until....
"wounded illusions and ruin" became real.
j.