Not Knocking On Your World

By Bruce Clifford

The blurbs of Babylon.
Signatures on the rise.
Twilight of imagination.
It comes as no surprise.

  Empty gutless feelings.
Eminence of discontent.
Latitudes of misplaced healings.
Approachable with resent.

  I’m not knocking on your world.
I’m not reaching for the door.
I’m not listening to silence.
I’m not taking this anymore.

  Abuse and games with emotions.
Challenges with every sunrise.
Two ships passing in the ocean.
Regretting when I realize,

  Displaced irrelevant feelings.
Creation of toxic waves.
Polarizing reflected dealings.
Surviving in subtle ways.

  I’m not knocking on your world.
I’m not reaching for the door.
I’m not listening to silence.
I’m not taking this anymore.

  ©12/14/2022 Bruce Clifford

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