will you cast off the skin

Rex Inkpen
Author: Rex Inkpen
Word Count: 103
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will you cast off the skin

will you cast off the skin belongs to the following groups:

! Creative Writing & Poetry !, All Things Poetic, Artistic, Philosophical, Core [C.O.R.E] and Up & Coming Writers

Will you stay? I wonder.
will you be prepared to frolic once again
in the warm heavy dropped rain
with the thunder cracking and echoing around the hills
and the lightning strafing.

Will you lay on the grass
while the bullets of heaven
splash heavily on your downy chest hair
and work their way miraculously
towards the corners of your parched mouth.

Will you cast off the skin
of your half lived, half imagined life
and finally embrace the specter of uncertainty
that now presents itself to you
as your only real friend.

Will you stay, I wonder
or has the moment passed.

  • ArcadiaTempest

    ArcadiaTempest

    Wonderful writing Rex….posing a pertinent question indeed. Do you let go of what holds us back that may of been a rich dream that now is more an irritation in our mind….one we seem to scratch at.

    And is the moment to take courage and grab a new ideal lost?? I am imagining a merry-go-round and there will be more chances coming around again…not sure how fast or slow it is moving though….:)

  • Rex Inkpen replied

    thank you AT, it seems that ‘opportunity knocking’ is not a universally acceptable phenomenon.

  • Cassidy JK (Ra Or Emraeh)

    Cassidy JK (Ra...

    Great writing and excellent ending.

  • Rex Inkpen replied

    well thank you very much indeed Cassidy

  • math-ilda

    math-ilda

    this is so easy to read, yet is weighted down with heavy words of wonder and difficult questions. I think that that is what makes this flow and work so beautifully

  • Rex Inkpen replied

    thank you math-ilda, that is a very kind observation. I do like the uncluttered, yet multi layered work of carver, collins etc who have mastered this effect.

  • ArcadiaTempest

    ArcadiaTempest

    It is accepted me thinks Rex but just not grabbed for there seems to be more worries these days about the what if this happens…. ;(

  • annalang

    annalang 24 days ago

    Beautiful.

  • Rex Inkpen replied 23 days ago

    thank you for having a read annalang.

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