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[aid] => mick
[title] => Layers Of A Reality
[time] => 2006-07-19 06:28:24
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[bodytext] => If I could bear down on labyrinthine time To clamp vagabond chromosomes that betrayed Who mutated me into this shy caricature Displaced in the womb of an arrogant surrogate Faceless to this world of masked players Spurned for my eagerness to give and to please Vying for my space in the face of hostility Beating a hasty retreat from worldly ways Cowering to contempt, straining at shackles To be birthed again on a friendly lap And know the warmth of a mother’s breast For a childhood nourished with love’s wisdom And eased gently to cryptic destiny Lay a check on my frenzied DNA Let me straddle confidence that this world laps up Make me belong like the communal thespians Who don clever masks that’s credence to victory Lay a wish on my pre-birth pillow Lock it away and hide it from my karma… [comments] => 2 [counter] => 261 [topic] => 21 [informant] => Sasha [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => Lifepoems )
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