Whipping boy

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inquiringmind: Last night
for a few brief moments
I saw the coquette
which
quickly retreat
behind the screaming harpy
obliterating any semblance of tranquility.

I find myself avoiding
the changeling that
has taken the place
of one I love so fiercely
but can hardly bear.

You have become
the whipping boy
for
all of my inadequacies
lost freindships,
social ineptitudes
and
fear.

If you
The Gibraltar of my childhood
the ever faithful
crisply competent
eternally witty
could fall
like an angel from grace
what chance have we
mere mortals
In this most cruel game
of
Deus ex machina.

Inquiring mind