Dancing at The Dawn of The Ball

Dancing at The Dawn of The Ball

written by: Scott Thomas Outlar

@17Numa

If ever there were
a time (& place/spatial awareness)
to tie your own shoelace
or get/mend your life
straight (& set in order)

now would be the perfect cue to act
final offer
before it’s all written off
as a failure

I only give advice (when prompted)
that I had to earn/learn/acquire myself

I don’t just run my mouth
for pleasure
nor do I care
to cause/create (or even stir
a single lick
of drama)

but I’d rather
spend a long season
vomiting forth
the poisons of truth

than watch you
surrender
& bow before
your own death bed
(ruined in deceit
& disrepair)

Sleeping w/Hypnos
waking no longer
w/a crypt (creature) keeper
called as Thanatos
holding space (safe or otherwise)
for all ten (righteous) rings/tolls
of karma’s bell

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Scott Thomas Outlar

Scott Thomas Outlar is originally from Atlanta, Georgia. He now lives and writes in Frederick, Maryland. He is the author of seven books, and his work has been nominated multiple times for both the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. He guest-edited the Hope Anthology of Poetry from CultureCult Press as well as the 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 Western Voices editions of Setu Mag. He has been a weekly contributor at Dissident Voice for the past eight years. Selections of his poetry have been translated into Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Bengali, Cherokee, Dutch, French, Hindi, Italian, Kurdish, Malayalam, Persian, Serbian, and Spanish. More about Outlar's work can be found at 17Numa.

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