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Cracked Crystal

I reach out with trepidation to vibrate the flex of your aura. Your eyes whisper tales of violence and despair behind     five layers of eye-shadow. Stepping gently, we pirouette: a hammer dancing with glass. I watch as you pad away to wash your disgust in absolution like a baptism of sulphuric acid and tears,     seared within fiery memory. Streaks dissolve in the erosion once poisoned by the fear. The sobbing echoes off the tiles until quaking my resolve firm. Her childlike features huddle nerves along the basin floor, waiting     patiently to flow once again in the ebbing cradle of blackness where prospect will find her again.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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Date: 6/19/2009 10:40:00 AM
You say so much in this writing - I feel as though I am absorbing such mouthfuls of rich words - well done..
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Date: 6/17/2009 10:06:00 AM
There are so many women hiding their hearts beneath "five layers of eye shadow," John. Wish there was a way for all of us to see them and their "childlike features" through your poetic eyes. Beautiful poem! Love, Carolyn
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