Assuming boldness
Shielded from reality
Narrowing vision
Mere slivers of perception
Blind to possibility
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Carapace protects
Fragile sensibilities
Letting no-one in
Inwardly vulnerable
Simulating bravado
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Outmoded habits
Cling with the strength of cobwebs
Shroud the living dead
Hiding within illusion
Constructing their own prisons
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They have lost their way
Those within a self-made cage
Seeing only bars
Oblivious of the door
That has always stood open.
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About Sue Vincent
Sue Vincent was a Yorkshire born writer, esoteric teacher and a Director of The Silent Eye. She was immersed in the Mysteries all her life. Sue maintained a popular blog and is co-author of The Mystical Hexagram with Dr G.M.Vasey. Sue lived in Buckinghamshire, having been stranded there due to an accident with a blindfold, a pin and a map. She had a lasting love-affair with the landscape of Albion, the hidden country of the heart. Sue passed into spirit at the end of March 2021.
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We all put on this armor from time to time. (K)
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But not all of us choose to wear it all the time.
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Thank goodness.
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I love the lines: “Outmoded habits / Cling with the strength of cobwebs”
And the ending message is so sad, and often true. Wonderful poem, Sue.
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Thanks, Diana. Yes, it is a sad way to live.
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Some of us need invisible armour to survive
Sadly true 💜
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❤
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