All were your friends, and still the problem!
The beast rises from our own subconscious mind.
c s shah
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Colin dewar wrote:
>
> Misadventure
>
> I came with friends from different places,
> wished to introduce
> to one another familiar faces,
> imagined with fondness
> how they might discuss
> around the table
> what each had thought alone,
> find company when they expected none,
> and so began a dialogue
> that matched the discretion of cutlery,
> the mildness of flowers in a vase.
>
> I listened and joined in from time to time,
> unaware of another dialogue uncovered,
> not in words but a darker tongue,
> a deeper bonding of bone
> beneath the facile skin,
> a malice from nowhere,
> a pressure at last at critical strength,
> from hazardous shafts escaping,
> till I found clear
> the shape of a beast I could not control,
> rising to devour me.
>
> __________________________________________________
>
> Colin
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