{"sf1_id":264167,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Shelled and Covered Life","author":"Jikan Tunderiska","words":114,"posted_at":"2011-07-03T16:37:00.000Z","tags":["First Person","Other","Philosophy","Poetry"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/264167-shelled-and-covered-life","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/264167","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=264167\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"\u0026nbsp;\n\nAs life's consumed by flames of desire\n\nI feel the tears crawl down my emotion\n\nBurning shells cov'ring soft interiors\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nBeen there for so long, knew not how to feel.\n\nJust like I took a venomous potion\n\nA potion that harms more than it can heal.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nTrustworthiness lost to those who truly can\n\nFeel without pain, can feel without remorse.\n\nBut conversely, truth lost to those who can't\n\nTrust who feel, whether by fault or by choice.\n\n\u0026nbsp;\n\nPity those given into this notion,\n\nThat life is without pain or without strife.\n\nThere will be red tape and signs of Caution!\n\nSo I'll trudge through what they call this my life.\n\n  \n  \n\n"}