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Walls Within Walls


For most of us
the construction began in early childhood,
an intuitive defense mechanism,
to cope with being deemed too short or too tall,
too bright or too dim, too cute or too plain, too
large or too small!.

Tools of the trade,
employed by parents, siblings and playmates,
were both inherited and fabricated,
as the need arose, mandated to install
protective foundations, yet unnamed as our
walls within walls!.

With only a
few brave souls strong enough to venture beyond
the barriers, the construction continued
for the rest of us as defined social cures
required to justify perceived shortcomings
in our structures!.

Must we follow
those who conceived the earliest prototypes,
commissioned blueprints, dictated the dogmas
that stifled the light!? Or should we embrace flaws
in the perfectly imperfect so we might
tare down the walls!?

(I finished this late last night, the first new poem I've written in months!. What do you think!?)Www@QuestionHome@Com

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