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There was a wall in there.
A barricade against the world.
He’d built it, bit by bit, from hurts and slights and bigger woes.
And hid.
Within.
Where he thought he’d be safe, and from where he could watch from a distance, reassured by barriers and gates and locks and elaborate booby-traps that made sure no one got too close.
There was a wall in there.
And a moat.
Alligators, too. For insurance.
Only that they had become hungry with the years, as less people even attempted to get near him, and therefore there was less bait.
So that he was, in many ways, imprisoned.
He’d been young when he’d built the wall, and he didn’t plan ahead. So needy of a solid barricade he’d been, that he never made a way to unlock the gate.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Barricade in 136 words
Na'ama Yehuda 
Oops, hemmed by his own device. 🙂
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Happens, doesn’t it? 😉
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Indeed. Probably rathert a lot
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Yep. Does.
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🙂
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Na’ama Y’karah,
So true of too many, isn’t it? Once those barricades are up they can seem insurmountable. Well written. I like the moat. I’ve had to drain my own swamp more than once.
Shalom,
Rochelle
Mine is here: https://rochellewisoff.com/2019/12/08/excuse-the-dust-on-my-blouse/
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Yes, it is very true for so many of us. And the self-imprisonment is often unintended and oh-so-difficult to free oneself from. Draining the moat (periodically, at least) is a good thing — all that gunk that hides on the bottom and muddies up the water can use cleaning to avoid malaise .. 😉
Hugs
(Off to read yours)
Na’ama
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I almost went down this route and am glad I didn’t as there is no way I’d have been so eloquent… So often we trap our own selves, don’t we?
Well done, Missy!
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Thank you, Dale! I think you are plenty eloquent, my friend! 🙂 And … yes, so often we trap ourselves, with impulse and worry that cloud foresight … Then again, hindsight is always 20/20, isn’t it … 🙂
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Well. okay, if you say so 😉
Isn’t it though…
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🙂 Looking back to check.
Yep.
20/20. 😉
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Haha!
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🙂
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