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Barbara K. Smith

9 years ago

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Poetry from the Corner of Barbara Kasey Smith’s World

A Forbidden Secret
Twisted and imperfect
an innocent child’s manipulated
steered by an abuser
professes to be a virtuous friend…
A devil in disguise
adulates importance and power
pushes it to the limits
increased ego while drilling.

A young mind wrought by evil
misled about friendships and relatives.
Confusion and pain
misguided love and affinity
left with a bruised and mixed mind
fear of telling, afraid to say “no.”
My innocence lost to a nightmare
year’s pass and the hurt stings.

Lost in a ravaged realm of shame
gnaws at the brain incessant
never frees the soul for peace
a spirit writhes with imbedded hate
prays for freedom from disgrace
pleads for a release from the noose
holds a hostage that’s ineffable
living with a forbidden secret.

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Barbara K. Smith: Barbara Kasey Smith was born in Affinity, West Virginia. She was raised in a coal-mining town of Crab Orchard, West Virginia. Barbara worked for the federal government for thirty-one plus years. She enjoys reading, writing, the theater and her family and friends. Barbara loves to write poetry and opinion articles and she has been published in several anthologies, magazines, and Internet reviews. She has had four books published. She enjoys her husband and Jack Russell terrier, Miss Daisy, to be in the room as she writes because it gives her the feeling it enhances her ability to attain her best writing moments.