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Encircled 
by Rie Sheridan Rose 

Sometimes, it feels like

the world is closing in—

Everyone you know looking

at you in judgement…

.

Standing in a circle around you,

but keeping their distance.

As if it is dangerous

to get too close.

.

At times like those,

I feel like a glass marble…

Totally transparent—

all my dreams exposed.

.

And everyone around me

is opaque in my sight…

unreadable, inscrutable,

terrifying in their disapproval.

.

I stand in the middle

of the growing circle…

and have the overwhelming

desire to explode.

.

Fiction © Copyright Rie Sheridan Rose
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

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…unless you like the touch of an icy finger up your spine.

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