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Batya Nov 2013
Winged eyes
Flutter, take flight,
Little butterflies,
Shadow and light.

Mini kaleidoscope,
Can't focus on both;
Prisms, reflections,
Creatures making connections.

Liquid emotion,
Lie detection,
Deceit and love,
Model hearts.

In each-- black holes, perhaps,
Vacuum the world;
Others' merely wander through  it
Under a cover of night.
Batya Oct 2013
I like the way his voice snags on itself
when he's tired.

He sees the world in shades of green and brown and blue,
tinted through the eyes he sees it through.

He thinks, but can't put into words--
I like that I'm his self- expression, and
when there's an overflow of mine,
I like that I don't need to write them down for him to read them on my face.

It's a little lonely and a little nice
that I only feel like me when he looks at me,
and I like that he's looking right through what I see.

I like that he'll never, ever have had a broken heart
and I like that he glued shut the cracks in mine,
making it his creation, to know and feel at will.

I like that our color is white, the color of angel wings,
that things that would be dark if done with anyone else
are real because we're us, are pure, are holy.

There is a spectrum of emotion wider than the world
and only he could make me run that length in a day,
and sometimes I like that, and sometimes I lie and say I don't.

Yin and yang, like sun on waves,
with fights on the dark side of the moon,
with souls two big for one person to contain,
that's why we share them-- so there are two.
Batya Oct 2013
He wasn't anything.
He wasn't white.
He wasn't black
Or brown
Or peach
Or tangerine.
He could have been green.
Was he Asian?
Middle Eastern?
Did he wear a kippah,
A keffiyeh?

He wasn't anything.
I bet he didn't even
Have a belly button.
He came before the race.
He was nothing,
He was
earth.
Batya Oct 2013
Shadows lie across the moon lit
Silver dust that shapes our dreams
And darkness moves like waterfalls,
Making nothing what it seems,

The sparkle in my eye like diamonds
Or light on water, black and white,
Beauty unveiled delicately,
I'm moved to flight, maybe I might.

This is a teardrop world
Shed from an eye that can behold
Beauty before it's born, imagination
Before it rustles gentle wings and they unfold.

A dome of sky is within reach,
Dark space and twinkling stars,
Horizons so close I cannot see them
Before the glassy planet shards.

This is the place behind my eyes,
My afterworld, my peace,
This is the place I've not yet shown you,
Perhaps I will, just in my dreams...
Batya Sep 2013
Prayer is a thought,
                a frisson,
                 a song,
                 a sob.

Prayer can be all that one is,
All that one aspires to be,
It can be all that one has lost,
The last thing that one has to give.

True prayer is internal,
Prayer is like a snowflake,
Prayer is not printed
Words on a page.

Prayer is not always cathartic.
Prayer is angry. Prayer is hopelessness.
Prayer is more often than not
A last resort born of desperation.

Prayer uttered daily, commanded by a man,
Is prayer stripped of meaning, desecrated,
A holy word on a holy plane
Made mundane.
Batya Sep 2013
When a wild spirit falls in love,
It locks her up
In a cage.

When a wild spirit falls in love,
She gives all her wild away.

A wild spirit falls in simultaneous love
For boredom does not come easily
To a wild thing.

A wild spirit is a match only for multiple men,
And so she challenges herself and ends up tangled
In a web that can only be woven by a wild spirit in love.
Batya Sep 2013
Gravity
Shakes me,
I'm not fat
But I feel
So
Heavy,
I hit the ground
I wobble
I feel too big
For my skin,
I am not overweight
But I feel my fat,
I wish I weighed
Nothing at all.
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