She Lay There

SHE LAY THERE Grievances were given Everyone proceeded by She lay there The people talked The people cried She lay there Memories of long and close One in particular just stared She lay there She lay there not because of slumber And not because of death She lay there Because she was disparate from the rest Not in guises—nor in dress But in awareness and in thought She was the only one they caught A fairytale yesterday A reality today She lay there invulnerable She lay there unreachable Then She sat up The people moved back Sensitive to attack She had no such designs They had captured her but she had their minds What they had seen as lying What they had assumed sitting up All that they had assumed Kept her amused Because reality had been bent Their intellects limp Her uniqueness was elsewhere And at times neither here nor there A ghost among ghosts She lay there Never once truly stirring when they came too close She had not set up They had not played host It was her domain It was where they remained As long as they slept—As long as they lay there She laid them bare But as every day ends Another must begin And in-between the suns moment of glare She waited And She lay there