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Trust

Connie Oz

The cubicle jockey job is only a cover. Writer of poems, observations, and short stories.

September 28, 2014

Living on trust for years
Thinking trust
was the only essential
It was safe, it was sterile
to trust, to know
someone would be
faithful
was to give up
on passion
no risk, just safety
Sitting on trust
not breathing, not living,
no excitement
lost in illusion - trust