Sunday, November 13, 2011

STATE SECRETS


What an ugly thing.

This? It is but a little string.
It can’t harm you.

Yet
Avert your eyes
And before you realize
The little strings become the net
You cannot escape.





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4 comments:

Brian Miller said...

yep...get enough of them together and they will make a noose as well..

Alice Audrey said...

Those little strings can be what defines us.

Monkey Man said...

No strings attached? Hardly. A single string and weave to a web. Great 160. Thanks for playing.

Ann (bunnygirl) said...

Very profound. We're often ensnared by strings that are easily broken, but we haven't the will to do it because we think the strings are chains.