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Tag Archives: Vulnerability

The Tattoos of Dorian Gray

Audio Recordings / tagged Aging, Secrets, Vulnerability / September 15, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Long sleeved and high necked shirts
could protect him from the crowd

But when he bathed the truth came out
in wrinkled cupids, moms and babes

Inspired by the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Image by Photorama from Pixabay 

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All Dressed Up and No Way to Go

News / tagged Military, Police, Riots, Vulnerability / June 13, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
All dressed up in riot gear

It’s the only clothes they gave me

and here I am at the wrong party again

Photo by ev on Unsplash

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Tears

Relationships / tagged Boys, Men, Vulnerability / January 26, 2020 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
It’s not that 
big boys and men don’t cry

The tear ducts
are just shaped different

And it all runs down inside

Photo of Ruby Falls near Chattanooga, Tennessee

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Eggshells Need Love Too

Audio Recordings / tagged Sensitivity, Vulnerability / August 24, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
lately I've been feeling so empty and more fragile than ever before 
everything that i believed in is gone
desperate i turn my jagged edges to the world
step on me with sensitive feet you will be sorry
with lumbering boots, i will be crushed
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The Truth About Lies

Uncategorized / tagged Fake News, Psychology, Vulnerability / June 9, 2019 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com
Every lie is true
even if that truth is only
why the liar

even beyond 
the depth of drilling
was compelled to tell it
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