Veil (an acrostic poem)

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Viewing life through a gauzy sheet of emotions

Everything was fuzzy and slightly off color

It made things less scary and more comfy

Living that way also meant never really knowing what was real

Grip (an acrostic poem)

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Giving up and letting go of reality

Realizing being delusional is so much easier to cope

If you think about it, though, that is so scary to do

Perhaps It might be better to hold on for dear life

Ramp (an acrostic poem)

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Raising expectations to an unsustainable level

As the crowd goes wild, flying over the gap between fiction and reality

Making the question of how they would land a scary topic

Pitching sideways on the landing, the public crashed and burned, and that’s why we can’t have nice things

Lion (an acrostic poem)

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Like being the king of my domain

I prowl back and forth, roaring to show how big and bad I am

Oh sure I may be scary and intimidating with all these sharp teeth, but

No one said I wouldn’t play with a ball of yarn if given a chance.

Trap (an acrostic poem)

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They were so darn cute

Really little monsters should be more…scary

And yet her Pikachu felt like her soulmate

Perhaps she really did need to catch them all….

Shark (an acrostic poem)

So many teeth can be quite scary

Hell, they can even be part of a tornado

And if Hollywood can make a buck off of them

Really should you expect anything else

Keep the faith, fish are friends and not food.

 

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Begin (an acrostic poem)

Best not to leave a crumb of life behind

Else you might miss the best part

Going forward with your escape

Is invigorating and scary

Now embark on your new adventure

 

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Change (an acrostic poem)

Compromise is a sign of weakness

Holding to one’s principles keeps us strong

At least as strong as we are today

Never do anything different, because that is scary

Give me consistency because the alternative won’t work

Even though I really couldn’t give two cents about it