Damage Ii
"To study psychological trauma is to come face to face both with human vulnerability in the natural world and with the capacity for evil in human nature”— Judith Herman.
I once knew a girl resolute
With countless goals in pursuit
Along came a knight
To dismantle her fright
And all of her goals to
Boot...
Golden girls in gilded towers
Dream by night
In endless flowers
Beds
they've made
And now to sleep
And in the day to just to keep
They cower and weep
feign they're meek
Hemmed in by formless magic
Her nights tower height and breadth tragic
Dreams nightmares stay to glower
Picked her pocket and her power
Girds her in safely-- fragile female woe
Holds her captive Svengali's secret male mojo
Female cunning and intuit fail
And all that's left are thick walls
To wail
Up on.
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