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April 11, 2016
By MagdaEmilia GOLD, Big Creek, California
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"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Suess

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Hands are closing
round my throat
squeezing
choking
provoking me to bolt
 
I want to dash away
dash away
like all the reindeer
but the only thing I can do is stay

Words fall from my breathless lungs
my strangled throat
my empty mouth
my empty head
my empty body
   “Help me”

 

I look down and all I see

is my own hands

choking me

© Chris C., Milford, CT

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Tkenns BRONZE said...
on Apr. 27 2016 at 7:42 pm
Tkenns BRONZE, Des Moines, Iowa
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That ending is on point.