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You are so proud
Of your defenses.

The strong fundament of constructions built to keep everyone out.

And you in.
 Jan 2017 Brett Palmero
LB Parker
I have learned that this life
Comes and goes like the mist
So I'm determined to do more
Than just exist
With love, kelsey
 Jan 2017 Brett Palmero
LB Parker
I have built
great stone walls
around me

And each time I consider
Bringing someone in
I picture
Watching them leave

So then I slam
the door shut
And throw away its key
With love, kelsey
I used to want to be a princess
Now I want to be a pirate
Wild and free, master of the sea
No longer demure and quiet

I thought - Oh, to be a princess!
Hair long, limbs soft with grace
Beauty and poise, (and so grandiose)
Life perfect, and firmly set in place

I’m patient good, and moral
Would never dream of running wild
“You wouldn’t understand, dear,”
And I’m trapped, a perpetual child

But adoration begins to get cloying
Worship - quick to condescend
Lofty voices in discussion around me
I sit; wait for it to end

So instead I shall take to the sea
I won’t care if they don’t like it
I’ll want what I want when I want it
Because that’s the life of a pirate

I’ll  be riding the seas
However I please
All of my own accord

I’ll have an open mouthed laugh
And how they’ll all gasp
While my eyes flash in reckless abandon

(I used to want to be a princess
Now I want to be a pirate
Wild and free, master of the sea
No longer
demure and
quiet)
Her soul
Was in a noose,

She broke free -
She cut loose.

She threw the rope
Into the sea,

Finally, after four decades,
For the first time, she was free.

She forced herself to accept
The things that she could not change,

She learnt how to protect herself -
However weird it felt;
However strange.

For the first time, ever,
She listened to herself,

With this, she found a remedy
For her exhausted mental health -

Finding this,
She found the grandest of wealth;

She finally found out
How to truly love her 'true' self!

By the Grace of God,
Came this divine gift,

She is blessed -
She is forever grateful
For this mental shift.

~ All thanks, be to God,
Her one and only,

For blessing her
With his unconditional love -
He remains with her
Even when she feels
hopelessly lost,
Extremely anxious,
And unbearably lonely.

By Lady R.F ©2016
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