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Because We Write

Anger by Ed Coet

With a poignant sense of regret
keenly felt to the core of my being.
Eliciting archaic emotions,
evoking a corrupt heart.

Summoning the latent potential
of all that is evil within.
Tempting rage with a
vehement desire to lash out.

Feeling internal hostility
with displeasing vexation.
Touching delicate and fragile sensitivities
accompanied by shattered sensibilities.

An inability to appreciate or respond
to aesthetic influences.
A grudging spite with
offending annoyance.

An intensive force influencing
restricted control.
Giving cause for my regret,
for guilt filled remorse.

Emerging from a cloud of confusion
and sometimes despair.
Oh yes, I understand;
I know anger.

Bio: Ed Coet is a retired US Army officer. He is also a professional educator and a published freelance writer and poet. Ed Coet has had numerous articles published on a wide variety of topics. His hugely popular and top rated article Testimony of a Suicide Survivor can still be read on Soldierworks.com , Amazines.com and Ezine articles.com . Ed Coet's short story, David's Angel , will be published in the popular ezine Bewildering Stories (issue 234) in the February 26, 2007 edition. His poems have been published or have been accepted for publication in Purple Dream Ezine, Solder Works magazine, Children, Churches & Daddies Magazine, Scars publication, Steller Showcase Journal, Both Sides Now Journal, Because We Write Magazine, Censored Poet's Ezine, Author's Den Ezine, and Muscadine Lines, A Southern Journal.