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I Honed a Mental State
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The world within four walls is as good or better than the outside world.


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I honed a mental state
Hidden in this box, this cave
This womb of comfort
No eyes to see or be seen

Inside these walls
Blood pumps its pipes
Gentle lungs whisper
Another day, another

I won’t come out
I reject your world
Your lies
Your accumulating “stuff”

I drink the oxygen of trees
My only friends
I kick it in art museums
Adoring the old, the masters

My youth wasted
On ignorant boasts
Humility by pain
Hateful rules

Sin, sin, sin!
Take me back to warmth
Hide me beyond that passage
Where hope remains
 


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 Reviews of "I Honed a Mental State"
Reviewed by Michael True
Reviewed on June 9, 2014
The ray of hope reveals itself in the last two lines. This writing and the writing/art of countless others to spark the joy necessary for a sustainable existence. Write, paint, sculpt a world of hope. M.True

Reviewed by Odin odin@aflx.com
Reviewed on May 25, 2014
"Where hope remains" in this context suggests that much of what's out there is but huckstering for veneration, yet purposely taking no prisoners. I.e., what resides outside the walls you allude to is a pandemic of dishonesty and fear, a kill or be killed mentality. For many of us...no argument there.


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