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I AM… SORRY

♥️♥️I don’t understand anything that is not LOVE… anymore… that is only because I work hard to study, rehearse and display it. For the The Masks We Wear Challenge ♥️♥️

By Caitlin CharltonPublished about a year ago • 1 min read
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I see it now

Under the staff

The man ☀️

~

The sheep’s song

The son who ran away

They were all caged by our mouths

The tongue

The throng

~

It was haste and loud

We skip the thoughts of the one

Who we could

Run

Safe

From ☀️

~

Burdened

This leaves me

Hur-ting

Free from

Delusion

I can’t make haste. to save. a sister. from a gun.

I’m hold-ing

Hop-ing

That i’ll deliver them

…

Dark force that is lead-ing

Me

…

I am cry-ing, to be seen

Sending a message

Open me

So I decree

Devotionals and energies

To set you free from my tongue

From all of us

Who were wrong ☀️

~

Interpretations failed

Through lazy trails

And coercion

But we are try-ing to pave the way

To make a feast instead of greed

Without a mask

Vipers and accessories

~

We failed you

The need to set you free

So only in one instance were we wrong

We were in deep

Demonology

And that is without analogy

Without a safe space there is no theology

So I’m sad

For you

For me

For all the weakness

When we speak

Let this page

leap ☀️

*wait…

You’re a diamond we wish to save

But we struggle inside this cage

This bo-dy given in faith

We surrender this today

…

But we will bow

Give us the grace

We wish to hold you in

Latter day

But ☀️

…

This wall is losing every case

Never

Fake

Love

I’m giving

Free of charge

~

So it grates

Denigrate us

Hug it out

I’ll make this quick

~

Burn the light instead

Of this

I’m sorry…

sad poetrysocial commentaryperformance poetryMental Healthfact or fictionFree VerseStream of Consciousness

About the Creator

Caitlin Charlton

Writer first. Close reader and self‑taught critic shaping eloquence.

A survivor reclaiming her territory.

I write dark fiction and poetry through symbol, shadow, and fracture.

Always sharpening the craft. ✏️🔥👠

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    Written by Caitlin Charlton