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Poetry: Glass houses

by Nol K. Martin-tungpalan

Created on: February 24, 2009

Walls

Seemingly open and crystal clear, but

Just a facade

A crack reveals the vulnerability

Anticipating that moment when

It can no longer hold

The pressure of hiding behind glass walls

Must some day burst

To reveal the secrets

Of the prim and proper interiors misjudged

The obsession with external societal expectations

Shattered

Revealing the soiled and disgraced

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