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Spider

September 24, 2015
By ZillaZara GOLD, FairPlay, South Carolina
ZillaZara GOLD, FairPlay, South Carolina
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Favorite Quote:
"Everyone has their own little internal world - a secret garden only they can enter. Each world follows its own internal logic - individuality. " - Joshua Kiryu in The World Ends With You


It's suspended along my vocal cords
A sticky, smothering mess
Stretched across the chasm of my throat
It adheres to every surface

Hacking and coughing simply will not do
This unwieldy web cannot be easily expelled -
a blockade that greedily grabs at heavy air saturated with particles of sound and light
Just to strike most unexpectedly and tangle these words in viscous globs
So that my voice comes out distorted, disfigured,
If it even escapes at all

If this is what it's like to keep a secret,
I think I'd prefer to let them fly far and free
Except these spiders prove tediously hard to extinguish -
There are some things no one is willing to release


The author's comments:

I have been plagued with colds all my life, and during a particularly bad one I decided to try writing a poem about it, but as it started taking on a spidery quality I ended up giving it a deeper meaning. 


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