🧡💛Cento: Found Poetry💛🧡No 4 – Shut 💛🧡

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We're somewhere nice and green.
We must travel in the right direction.
This is an age of caged hostility.
We must talk,
Fear lives here.
Speak softly
I am teaching my child tears can repair,
They spread like an illuminating glow.
Keep control. Say no more.
Don't leave me in the darkness of my mind.
No one there knew the power of names,
Endeavour to understand me.
You are love,
Let us respect its full effect.
The door's now been shut,
Unbowed by their enemy,
Letting go of what no longer serves them.
The silent mouth stays shut.

©Dominic Berry/🦊VixenOfVerse, 2025

** Random lines taken from the following books:
HOW CAN I BE NOW? SELECTED POEMS BY DOMINIC BERRY
https://amzn.eu/d/6WNw85C

NATURES DISCOVERED: THE SHORT OF IT - VOL 3 - Pages 27-32 ( poems by 🦊VixenOfVerse) Edited by SUSI BOCKS
https://amzn.eu/d/b8kx7Bb