Bridge On Rome
Where I grew
I felt a cert
that with hair so "ging-eh"
Touch would be revulsion.
So at pitch black 1
when they'd hassled me "You're late"
and the lift was blown off for bad behaviour.
The quick footsteps
grabs, snares, gropes, sniffs and stalks-
I walked alongside secure.
Would they dare touch a ging?
Not even in the narrow
scraps or runs
did I choose the safe option.
Poison of the tongues
that acidly tortured my days,
fell my safety to the night.
...and yet I thought I was a bad runner too,
but sufficient it seems.
So when there's a void,
perhaps it is your glaring eyes to blame,
as it was your lips who taught
the voices that shed the light
away from the bridges
of the estates.
...and spent my luck too early
Copyright © Jennifer Ratcliffe | Year Posted 2011
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