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A Consensus With Demons
Duck n dodge all you want
Your demons never cease with the hunt
Haunting you every time you close them eyes.
They sit there perched
In that darkened corner of your mind
Waiting for your bod to submit to the sleep.
They creep and they crawl
All across the walls of your mind
Suffocating you in suppressed memories.
All you want to do is deny
And decry...FOUL
But they deny you reprieve night after fucking night.
I see right through your make-up
You're exhausted.
Living between tension and pretension
It sucks ,I know
The bow has long been broken
But who has to know outside of the confidence of
Your demons?
Right?
Published 23rd Jul 2021
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Anonymous
23rd Jul 2021 7:22am
--A Consensus of Demons
Very interesting psychological insight, and an economical way of communicating it:
"between tension and pretension"
"across mental walls to suffocate you with suppressed memories"
Works well from that basis.
Side note:
Most animals have a "counting" word specific to that animal, as well as some others, depending.
For example, a "flock" of birds, geese, sheep(?)
Some of the more arresting eximples:
A murder of crows
An un-kindness of ravens
I really like the idea of a poem about a "consensus of demons," since the idea of "consensus" nowadays gets gets wielded by ideological brutes, intent on controlling others.
This poem isn't that poem (I don't think), but it has given me that.
Thank you!
Very interesting psychological insight, and an economical way of communicating it:
"between tension and pretension"
"across mental walls to suffocate you with suppressed memories"
Works well from that basis.
Side note:
Most animals have a "counting" word specific to that animal, as well as some others, depending.
For example, a "flock" of birds, geese, sheep(?)
Some of the more arresting eximples:
A murder of crows
An un-kindness of ravens
I really like the idea of a poem about a "consensus of demons," since the idea of "consensus" nowadays gets gets wielded by ideological brutes, intent on controlling others.
This poem isn't that poem (I don't think), but it has given me that.
Thank you!
3rd Aug 2021 10:12am
Putting on the brave face does keep away the weaker monsters
Even jackals will not attack an injured lion whose roar is still strong, for they still know that a lion is superior to a jackal
Even jackals will not attack an injured lion whose roar is still strong, for they still know that a lion is superior to a jackal
