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Sydney, Australia
Composer, conductor and flute teacher.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Old Poetry - October 1997

A fire of iced fury explodes;
suppressed anger, accumulated emotion.
It burns through thought with murderous intent,
venting frustrations of cornered hurt:
accusations, destruction, abominations,
tyranny, taunts, lies...

Humiliated and demoralised, ensnared by seething injustice,
blinded by rage and the tears,
coursing unchecked down a stricken face,
like spontaneous streams of persistent rain.

Control forsaken, the kaleidoscope of baseless taunts cut
with knife-edge precision,
and pulsing revenge obliterates sense
with a vicious will to strike back.

The bait is seized, the trap sprung;
a startled retreat ensues from the backlash of consequences.

Shame is bitter company.

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