Caged Dancers

Tristan Robert Lange

I fear the fence-like cages
Surrounding the place we'd dance,
A cemetery of cemented certainty
Where the hope for better lives
Hits the button of mass destruction.
Sunshine is smothered by the smoke
Leaving carbon marks on pristine curtains.
Left reaching through chain links
Are those of us awake enough to see
We are not animals at the zoo.
 
© 2024 Tristan Robert Lange. All rights reserved.
 
POET’S NOTE: This poem is in response to Sparkle City Magic’s Mystical Adventure ~ Week #7 prompts (Medium.com). The prompts used: fence, dance, button, sunshine, curtain.
  • Author: Tristan Robert Lange (Online Online)
  • Published: November 10th, 2024 08:00
  • Comment from author about the poem: This poem is in response to Sparkle City Magic’s Mystical Adventure ~ Week #7 prompts (Medium.com). The prompts used: fence, dance, button, sunshine, curtain.
  • Category: Sociopolitical
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  • orchidee

    Good write T.

    • Tristan Robert Lange

      Thank you my friend! Very much appreciated! πŸ–€β€οΈπŸ–€πŸ™

    • sorenbarrett

      I’d rather dark poem with a utopian almost feel. Well written and somewhat mine puzzling.

      • Tristan Robert Lange

        Indeed! Thank you so much for the read and your thoughts.Much appreciated! πŸ–€β€οΈπŸ–€πŸ™

      • arqios

        Quite a visual menagerie in verse! πŸ‘πŸ»



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