Margins

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Margins

I could never color
Never stay within the lines
The thickness of the crayon
Edged past where I was coloring.

I like center justified
Not having to meet at the left, or right
Say what you want
No restraints
Never matching
Ambiguity.

Margins hem us in
keep us straight,
marginalize us,
but we're different shapes,
different thoughts
different...
no margins can contain us.

I can't use a ruler,
my lines don't go straight
But I see around what's ahead of me
before it's too late.
If I jut out just a bit
or go just outside the lines
My margin for success grows larger
Allows me to feel right inside.

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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

charlpntr’s Poems (14)

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Movement/Stan
ding Still
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Margins 0
ALONE 1
Cold World 1
Mona Lisa 1
TWO SIDES 0
REAL 0
THE MUSE 0
Living In a Liquid Word 1
Still Life 1
The Sensation of Speed 1
OLD MEN CAN TIME TRAVEL 0
A Coiled Knot 0
ARC OF THE ARROW 1