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You shield me from the world
You believe that my art belongs alone in dark
You make me mask my beauty and I resent you
What worth do I carry?
What wealth do I offer this world?
To you, I am a body
To be lusted, but no more.
Nothing more.
The ones that see the art behind my eyes
Are the ones you shield me from for fear I’ll realize all I have to offer.
What worth am I to you then?
Have you yet to discover me
Have you yet to sample the deliciousness I provide
When I held out my hands with a taste of this mind
You turned up your nose and flicked your wrist and shooed it away.
Everything I’ve offered you destroyed
Every piece I could afford to give has been banished
Or wrecked
Or returned
Or discarded
Or shunned
And I’m tired.
How many pieces of this flesh can I stand to lose?
When will this life say ‘enough’?
When will this art overflow and reach for the first thirsty mind it can find
And seek out the love that it needs?

What Brews Beneath

How long will you sit atop this lid?
You’ve filed and chipped and sawed at this lid
To create the ‘perfect’ fit.
While you push against this lid and force this security,
Something fantastic brews.
While you insist, while you resist, while you demand,
Something brilliant is brewing.
It grows and bubbles and simmers and pops
And waits for the perfect instant;
And when that instant arrives
That lid will burst and take flight
With no return in sight.
While you rest on that lid playing captor with my heart
Be wary of what looms beneath.

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Just as the sun kisses the tree tops goodnight
And collects the light it lent us today
I search for a ray to cling to
I’m scared of the darkness
I fear the veil unfurled before my eyes
I fear what lies beyond the blindfold
And pray the daylight will find me again

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I’m becoming like the flower that shrivels in the downpour
Who’s petals collapse beneath the weight of the drops
And darken and saturate until they sink into the ground.
I’d like to bury my head in the soil
Sink low into the Earth and fertilize the roots of tiny seedlings.
I wsnt to inspire
I want to rattle the Earth with all I carry with me.
Set me free
Set my soul free
Let me loose to fly through the grass and ripple the ground
Like waves in water
Like waves in air
My heart beats with a desire to affect you
To grab you and shake beauty to your surface
So that you too might affect someone.