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Bubble Worlds

Woman-Child

Is no more a butterfly than she ever was

yet has some likeness to that faerie creature a girl turns into a woman emerges from her bubble-world cocoon hold eyes captive with her smile and happiness retaining the light-hearted quality of girlhood and the knowledge of the butterfly's freedom of flight at once both ethereal goddess and exotic temptress

 

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years of being sheltered too fragile to resist forbidden fruits and pleasures. morals and restraints thrown to the wind. explosion of self pieces fly everywhere smoke clears showing I am alone wholly on my own after years of shelter under parental wings
This Is How I Am

I wish you wouldn't spend so much time

trying to figure me out

I'm not worth the effort it takes to get to know me

If it seems as if I am a complicated person-

it is only because I rarely speak,

rarely say what I am thinking.

and I am so clueless

when it comes to you, to other people,

I cannot read the words between the lines

I only hear that which is spoken

and your face is a blank page to me.

so rarely do I know

what's happening in the world

beyond me

living life in an enclosed bubble,

seeing the glass as both half empty and half full.

lying on my bed

trapped inside my head

the world vaguely knocks at my door

disregarded time and time again

a private world is created

where I can dwell in peace

where I can seek refuge

the "real world" left outside on the front lawn

trash bags to be thrown into the dumpster

a world of fantasy fantastic

glimmering with gossamer posibilites

time stands still yet the sun climbs the sky

maybe I am just wasting my time.

copyright january & april 2000