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She is described in the silence between each drop of rain,
the cry of midwinter wanting
Summer again, in
the call of the eagles as they soar
high above
and the sonnets that poets have written
of love.
  Feb 2019 margotskidder
JP
I was always too much woman for you
I would slip between your fingers
Like grains of sand
I was always too much woman for you
I would float out of your reach
Like a balloon to a child
I was always too much woman for you
I would run you down
Like a bull in a ring
I was always too much woman for you
Like a tidal wave
I swept you away
I tried to be less of a woman for you
And that was the day I lost myself
  Feb 2019 margotskidder
Z
24
Mister Clown, mister Funny
Mister Always has some money
Why aren’t you joking today
Mister i’m always okay
i’m okay, okay

On my tiptoes like it’s ballet
It’s second best we call that Park Place
and i’m blue, blue, blue
Ya know me well i’m mister cliché
Trade my years for smokes and ashtrays
Time just flew, flew, flew
Here’s some candles, it’s happy birthday
Here’s some camels, TGI Friday
TGI Jesus, TGI Nietzsche
it’s NTK it’s TLA, that’s AKA
redundancy
It’s subtlety and puppetry,
it’s how you got the best of me
you pull the ground from under me
for me to fall and i just do, do, do

Mister Clown, mister Funny
Mister Always has some money
Why aren’t you joking today
Mister i’m always okay
i’m okay, okay
  Feb 2019 margotskidder
Khoisan
Bruised
battered
and
delayed
the
cage was open
but
the
bird stayed
I was prompted to repost
by
the
cries for help!
Abused woman there has to be a threshold the silence must be broken
there is help out there
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