POETRY

Disdain

Poetic response to Spooktober — Week 2

Don’t make me show you this side of me the side that holds so much disdain for how this world treats Mother Earth supposed-others, the less fortunate ones

I don’t want that side of me to shine sunlight should never touch these emotions but keeping them buried, dark and hidden allow their ugliness to seep out

I will catch myself in a fit of outrage screaming and yelling at those in charge my blood curdling, veins popping in disgust I don’t even want to see me this way

No, don’t let me show you this let me meditate and transmute it all away

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Poetic response to Diana C.’s Spooktober Week 2 prompt — Contemplate emotions you’re afraid of exposing to others. What do you hide? Why?

Lori Carlson writes Poetry, Fiction, Articles, Creative Non-Fiction and Personal Essays. Most of her topics are centered around Relationships, Spirituality, Life Lessons, Mental Health, Nature, Loss, Death, and the LGBTQ+ community. Check out her personal Medium blog here.