Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Escaping Creon's Labyrinth

I would lie,
almost pathologically.
I would change myself because I wanted to be with you so much that
I would omit and stretch the truth.

But then I found out that I couldn't find myself in this labyrinth of lies that I had made.
I was lost inside my own maze.
- ICN, "Inescapable Labyrinths" (2015)

2 comments:

  1. Once we discover the lure of unbridled sensuality
    Or the false promise that great riches will free us
    ___ from the burden of our humanity,
    We do, indeed, wander into an ever-more-perplexing
    ___ and ultimately terrifying maze of our own devising,
    Till ultimately we fall exhausted, –– depleted ––, and expire
    ___ amid rapidly growing thorns
    That tear the putrefying flesh from our sorry remains,
    ___ while slowly obliterating every trace of our once-promising existence.


    ~ FreeThinke

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  2. Thank you for that thoughtful poem, FT!

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