silence hanging heavy
mutual exchange of
conspiratorial glances
unusual politeness
on my face
while mails and messages
go unanswered
I know
I’ll wake up tomorrow
with a knife in my back
as a rank newcomer
takes charge of my office
misplaced loyalty
injured pride
oozing wounds
indelible marks
etched by
tyranny of a psychopath
Creative Experiments and More 
A little power can be a scary thing, easy to trade humanity for tyranny, also possible the foreboding is paranoid, I have done that before, but either way you have described the feeling precisely.
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Thanks, Lona!
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Yikes … the office tyrannies, either you have to wait out the storm or flee…
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Thanks, Bjorn!
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Oh I didn’t see that knife coming…..which is usually the case.
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Yes. It is usually the case.
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I can feel the dread in this one…change of administration can often pose very difficult circumstances.
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Thanks!
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I hope the writing was cathartic. Rejection is hard to bear. Patience for bright days.
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Thanks!
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Btw, the writer and character are not always one. We often commit this error while reading.
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I remember this feeling very well. New administrators can be heaven or hell depending…
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Depending… ? 🙂 Thanks a lot!
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Very somber. May the knife not arrive.
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Hope so. Thanks!
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A fierce write – you conjure a vivid reality here…
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Thank you so much!
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Such an intense write.
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Yes, the topic is such. Thanks!
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My Pleasure!
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Goodness the hell people can inflict is frightening.
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Thanks, Susie!
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Being a drone for the state, the system creates these monsters on a scale unheard of by Frankenstein. I have had many like this. Scary.
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Thanks! They are amply rewarded for being the monsters they are.
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This gave me goose bumps….intense and well written!!
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Thank you, Carrie! People live through it, and then are told that they are not the only ones. It is happening to so many people out there.
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That acute sense of unease so wonderfully captured.
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Thank you so much!
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You are welcome.
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Get Out! When work starts terrorizing your inner peace, it’s not worth it! What a frightening poem–very well done!
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Thanks, Susan!
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Yes, scary. Enjoyed reading.
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Thanks!
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Ooops! Scary!
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Thanks for leading me to this prompt! 😊
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Yikes, that sounds a dangerous place to work. I once had two bosses like that, one after the other. It did me in. Flee!
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I have had more than two.
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