Fine Line

thin as breath heavy as choice

made from solid silver,
the nib adorned the quill,
drawing up the ink,
I drew the finest line.

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a line is drawn

the sand in my shoes is endless
and I ponder the distance
between each evanescent breath
observing the gossamer thread
from which my life
delicately hangs and flutters

a string of eternal nows
winding around memory
and undulating over circuitous paths 
each is littered with more questions

like the sun and the moon
past and future 
harmoniously exist in parallel zones
and I am the space in between
where chaos is embraced
to make way for peace

as each day begins anew
I am reminded that 
I cannot always stand
on the precipice

I truly wish to move
but my feet are glued to the fine line
between healing out loud
and bleeding for applause
between surviving and living

I walk razor wires
unable to hold on
unable to let go

thin as breath 
heavy as choice

I hold balance like a blade in my mouth
and parts of me are cut away
in the name of peace

I blur the lines between 
what lifts me up
and what consumes me

the fine line that connects the doors 
of life and death
and the fine line that defines my fate

I do not know 
where all this started
but it sits like a war in my mind

I am always strung up in indecision
over a boundary so barely there
perhaps no one would ever know
which line I crossed
or if I crossed one at all

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This was a collaborative poem! Here are the wonderful writers that contributed:

Robert Linegar, Kyle, Vision2Verse, Rolando Andrade, Bob Johnson, Diary of the Unpoet, Echoes From The Fire, Dylz, Curiosity is Poetry, HEW(Hue) of Poetry, Dr.Henna - Soul Mentor, A. Phoenix

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PLEASE NOTE:

sometimes when creating a collaborative poem, it ends up that even smaller fragments lead to a unified whole or that words and phrases call for further shaping and moulding. This is no reflection on the contributor. Instead, it’s a beautiful reminder that the creative process is always filled with twists and turns.

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