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Carving a New Shadow

By Peter Scott

Attempting another masterpiece
I sit here and stare
Waste my time
Spend my soul
Captive by past success
Paper soiled
Marks in trying
Yet not completed
Not even started
Topics rise
My heart twists
The flesh speaks
³No² I cry
³Regurgitated
Reused and unoriginal²
Standing tall
Shrinking into oblivion
Quicksand under foot
With a last gasp
My fingers touch the clouds
Grabbing with
Desperation lofty and with fluff
Never really with any blessing
Time flies
Or tries
Spinning then fragmenting
Its glass penetrating
Cutting the world
Hour hand turned
A thousand spins lost

Once beautiful
Words and feelings
Analyzed compared with
Perfection
Only human am I, however
Retailing
Commercialized the artist dies
Grandly dreaming
Plotting to be the best
Deformed he becomes
Now he must rhyme
Longing for his
Normal individuality
Crushed to produce
Original, better
Every moment
Shackled without dignity
Moving for life
A decapitated catfish
His maimed twin
First one slice
Then another after that
Still trying
Holding on to spirit
And dream
Life drained out of the dead
Becoming that which is
Defiant
One last push
Back to its river
The river of dreaming creativity
Mangled bones resurface
For the new born flesh
Once a stressed message
Now its son.

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