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Due Consideration (Free verse) by Dovina

An urgent whisper rises strained I hold it back hold breath Could it sound or only crack trying To restrain that unborn word might forfeit all To give voice, gain too much and what if that whisper isn’t ‘No’? After due consideration I ignore reason Better to take whatever pain release breath and thereby know

Dovina 22-Nov-05/1:41 PM
A break in rhythm happens in a conversation or in a poem when I come to a place of such emotion or uncontrol that something in me wants to come out, but I grasp it in my throat. There I hold it for critical moment, trying to decide whether “to give” it sound would say the thing that wants to come out or whether reason will prevail and “give” the sound the mask I wish it to wear.

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