The Losing
The tightening of the straps,
the dam that impedes the flowing
of the river that runs
to places unknown,
the numbing of the passion,
the protocol of the common man,
the ethics and the fear of ethics,
the bindings that dig into the spirit,
the writings that control the writing,
the rules from the book of poetry,
the rhetoric of the high and mighty,
the words that catagorize words,
the love that regulates love,
the heavy hand that abuses it,
the weight that falls on the free spirit,
for the demands to lose its authority,
at last the feeling of the free air,
the losing of the weight,
the pressure it has on the spirit,
on the mind, the heart, the soul,
the lifting them up and
casting them out into the abyss,
the opening up of the imagination,
the running into the wilderness,
the floating over the mountain peaks,
the playing in the clouds,
running with the rivers of passion,
the freedom song of the poet,
the emancipation of the words,
the refinement of their voices,
the love of the sound they make,
and the effect they have
upon the ears of the heart,
at last the losing of the
rules of the book of poetry.
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