- Non-Erotic Poetry
- She Stares Back
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I stand at the edge of the abyss,
With nothing to hang on to.
The ground could give in on me,
Or the sky crush me.
What will become of me?
I look at my reflection in the car window,
As I ride.
How can I be so young,
When I feel so old?
How can I be so beautiful,
When I feel so coarse and indelicate?
Who is it who looks in from the darkness?
My brain teems with questions
That cannot be asked
Things that cannot be said.
Is not slavery no more,
Than chains and promise
Of room and board?
How can a person be free to love
And still be
A person?
How can I tell you
That I want you.
That I need you there with me.
Everywhere I look I see misery.
No answers.
Always how to live
But never a reason why.
I kick stones into gaping chasms.
Collapse in market places
Uniqueness is wrong
In a world
Where insanity
Is a chemical phenomenon.
I breathe life from the earth
Mine myself for meaning
Fill my pockets with gemstones
This is who I am.
Forever
Lady Malachite
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