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Nothing But Pencils by afroxyz: 9:33am On Sep 04, 2013 |
When children write They write Trusting nothing but pencils And a sparse chest of words They scribble a path To a new worlds Plunging head first Into the uncertainty of play When children write Words play with pages Betraying the nubile innocence Of Their inky stains They boom loud sounds To dumb letters They twist their imaginations By the knob of their mistakes When adults write Words fight With the hot-seated dogmas And coloured perceptions With ghosts that lurk In the tunnels of thought Just to squat On the lines of pages Their wary expressions Distrust their fingers Their fear (of failing) Is hostile to their pens Constantly they are haunted By the conscience of their words Because the world would judge them Through a jury of 26 letters |
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