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    AC Benus
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Poetry posted in this category are works of fiction. Names, places, characters, events, and incidents are created by the authors' imaginations or are used fictitiously. Any resemblances to actual persons (living or dead), organizations, companies, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
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My Twentieth Year - 9. a voice from the closet

Poem No. 22

 

I look for beauty

but can find only the beast.

As children we are told to avoid it –

only purity for purities sought –

unforbidden duty

but the wrong offers such a feast

that only children can avoid it

and I am not a child with a child's thought.

 

coming out

 

 

Poem No. 23

 

Sweet embrace of a horrid thought

a simple one, one of immense truth –

its presence revolts me

 

The thought is entirely there

though magnified by the night so still –

the thought of who I am.[1]

 

 

Poem No. 24

 

You know of course I meant to go

before she went

but then she went before I got the chance to go

so now I'm going after she went

oh no.

 

 

 

 

 


[1] Sweet embrace of a horrid thought: This is the voice of one in the closet.

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On 03/04/2016 05:19 AM, Mikiesboy said:

I'm so glad you found your way out of the closet. I loved the first poem especially, no you are no longer a child and it's time to leave those thoughts behind and accept yourself.

A horrid thought? Never that.

Two more wonderful telling poems, AC

Beautiful

Thanks for your support, Tim. It means the world to me.

'Beautiful' is a wonderful compliment

AC Benus
On 03/04/2016 07:21 AM, Parker Owens said:

...but the wrong offers such a feast... this image is the one I find most compelling. It conjures up images of temptation worthy of a renaissance painter. Take the temptation and feast...for you are not a child anymore. You can decide...perfectly wonderful.

Thank you, Parker. This is a wonderful review, and I love that my words may have conjured images of Caravaggio for you ;)

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