You will not be trusted

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Photo by Daniel van den Berg on Unsplash

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The gilded heart of a poet
historically rife with
treacherous romantic
notions spilling blood
colored secrets onto pages
whipping hearts into
frenzied gasps and
hand-wringing rages
from towers on high

Oh how you deceive us
for the sake of what —

Truth? which is fickle by
the least of good standards
apt to fly like a flock
of fetid city pigeons
flapping wings against
history and the whispering lips
of stalwart legions!

Sifting through forgotten
gutters, and books for
artifacts of life,
suppositions of existence
soliloquies of cheer
contrived from falsehoods
Poets! too far removed
to recognize your words
have no authority here!

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Sandy Knight, 2019, All Rights Reserved

_{Photo by Daniel van den Berg}