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Poetry: Impossible standards

It's too high up there...

A spiral staircase winds around
a tower, leading from the ground
to castle keep, so very high
it seems to almost reach the sky

No place to dwell for any length
of time, none have the kind of strength
it takes to live up in that place
so far removed from life's embrace

In time the vertigo begins
from deep within, the tower spins
until the fall when all is lost
The keeper pays a heavy cost

Across the mote beyond the wall
an acrophobe recalls it all...

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Poetry: Impossible standards

  • 1 of 5

    by Just another writer

    It's too high up there...

    A spiral staircase winds around
    a tower, leading from the ground
    to castle keep, so very high

    read more

  • 2 of 5

    by Lily Lynn Davis

    I have grown
    And I have seen.
    Only in disappointment.
    This world is a black hole...
    The people that walk it,
    Rude careless beasts.
    Disgusting

    read more

  • 3 of 5

    by Heinz Ross

    Impossible

    There is no way to fight poverty,
    wage war against hunger,
    no way to fight for peace.
    One can not declare war on drugs
    or

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  • 4 of 5

    by Adam Smith

    Impossible Standards

    You have such impossible unattainable standards

    That I can not achieve

    So I can not stay anymore

    But I have

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  • 5 of 5

    by AMERICAN MAN

    ~=SERVING INJUSTICE=~

    Justice is free
    when you
    violate the law

    To protect and serve

    Try getting free
    from the law
    after they serve

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