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Rated: E · Poetry · Emotional · #2103478

A short poem

Against the Wall

I sleep against the wall
because it treats me the way
the world treats me
cold & uncaring
hard & un-comforting
I know what it will yield
nothing
I know what it will do
nothing
It is more truthful
than the reality
in which
I survive
So I stay
against the wall
it is my shelter
my shield

August 3rd. 1996
Copyright Kevin S. Hogue

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