Many things are such, side by side you could say
Two things in one space at the same time
Aiming for the same end, perhaps couples are so
One with the other, as one to face the world
Two views, abilities a compliment of pair
When they explained it is how I saw this word
Not as treatment but as challenge, two against the one
But I was wrong, it is mine she said to fight and win
You can have a part in this play but not a lead said she
So there it was, my role defined, no longer did the word have sense
Until we heard the reason, the reason of this word, then sense it made
A two fold thing, to fight the spread, to fix the ill
And so we saw this word applied, watched day by day
And slowly died, away the hopes, away the win
A losing fight, there was no challenge to this end
Soon came the loss, sallow, aged, one thing seeming
To undo the other, to reverse the good
And from the side I sat and saw, no leading part
Nor side by side, fight had left, so instead
We paired in an enclosed space, the word was wrong
They should have used indignity
2013
Words,words,how are you?
how do you feel
Emotions on the brink,
overflow,cascade in a stream
of tears.
How can mere words describe
how I feel?
So many symptoms exist,
jostle ,'neath this over whelming
sense of otherness, here, yes
listening,hearing but not living!
Zombie -like I struggled on.
This crisis confronts me head on,
confronts the risk ,adjuvant
posed against its supposed virtue.
Clarity!
Enough is enough,live now,drug
free,let chance ,let faith set sail
let me just be , me
belonging
being needed, wanted
because of who you are,
besmirch no one or risk
becoming adjuvant
belonging to no one.
bring a smile to a face
butterfly kiss says Hi
Penned 15/08/2016 for Pleiades B contest
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