Silent Jingle

A man can suffocate on courtesy. - Thoreau

well worth the steepest fee

it cost me everything to finally break free

to sign a decree

now, at last, at least, i can be the real me

trouble is there's no one left who likes what they see

you can't jingle one skeleton key

Author's Note

“I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.” - Thoreau