I confess

This took considerably longer than five minutes.

I started this piece of writing off with the five minute writing prompt Brand. Using this approach did help to get something flowing.

@mariannewest posts a daily 5 minute free write prompt.

I have joined in a few times in the past, and very much enjoyed the process.

I was very much in need of a prompt to get stated today, so although I didn't use the prompt as instructed, Thank you @mariannewest for seeing me through another day of writing.

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Branded.

Labelled first impressions,
Skin searing as you brand

In a single glance decisions reached,
Then scorched by iron hand.

Concluded and surmised without,
Interest sort to understand

Assumptions void of knowledge,
Of roads travelled to this land

For today is a mere snap shot,
Perhaps my story's not so grand

Though you know nothing of life's voyage,
That wash me here upon this strand

I do not seek an audience,
To preach from soap box or grandstand

No accolades are sort,
My sound ego need not expand

Like every mortal being,
Lived through undesired and unplanned

Enduring these and living on,
The sum of a full life spanned

So before you close your book,
push your chair back, begin to stand

Look me in the eye, and not,
The wall clocks ticking hand

Before you light the embers,
Or scrawl pen with fateful hand

Before you heat the iron,
Looking down on me so grand

Before you placing it to flesh,
Label discard and disband

Please look and see me first,
Before you too, to flesh do brand.

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