PALINDROME
an inverse poem
The phone rings
I see it
Its eyes fixate on mine
The only perceivable thing
Peering out from its silhouette void
The phone trills sharply
Breaking the silence of baited breath
She's calling to warn me
But it's too late now
I've already found it
Or did it find me?
Have I found my fate?
Have I always been here?
Was the demon always me?
Like a mirror
I stare back at my own face
Déjà vu's tendrils crawl on my skin
While invisible claws tear me open and swallow me whole
The spellbook lays ripped upon the floor
Spine torn down the middle
The floor is where I lay like a discarded page
Yet as I fell, so I rise, and I fall
Floating like a dust mite
Suspended in shadow
Lungs ruptured, ragged and rended
All I can hear
The sound of my breathing
The silence broken by
The trilling of the phone
Like a mirror
Peering out from my shadowed rebirth
The only perceivable thing left of me
Eyes I know now were always mine
I see it
The phone rings
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00:06:06 SPK_1 A few years back, I started to notice some unsettling things about my own conduct. 00:16:16 SPK_1 That concluded things. 00:01:17 SPK_1 My existence consisted of a succession of screens from the minute I woke up until the end of the day. 00:25:25 SPK_1 My phone was the first device I looked at when I woke up this morning. 00:30:30 SPK_1 I then found myself sitting in bed, flicking between a number of different apps while watching different cookery videos on Instagram. 00:00:37 SPK_1 Then again, it was time to get dressed and prepare breakfast. 00:00:41 SPK_1 Thus, the subject I was concentrating on at the time,
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This is outstanding writing. Congrats on Top Story, well deserved!
This is absolutely incredible! You are an artist 💪✨ keep shining!
Congrats on the Top Story! This poem is amazing. Love your use of language!
It's no wonder it's been selected as this month's top story. Good stuff, indeed.
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congratulations on your Top Story!
That was quite the puzzle of words, and you figured it out. Well, done! And congrats!
Suspenseful and creative piece, very good inverse!
This is wonderful. Congrats on the TS.
Congrats on the Top Story! This is such a well-written and dark inverse poem!
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Very cool and intense inverse! Well done!
Wow!! This is awesome- bone-chilling both ways, with some brilliant twists. Congrats on the top story!
Woah!! This is so clever and masterfully done. Amazing. What a visceral read, both ways!
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