IN PROGRESS…

an essay in self-portraiture

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And In The Darkness, I Was Blinded

There was a time I was bleeding

It would never really stop.

It pulled through me like a needle piercing cloth…

Stop!

Tethered to the end of something I knew not of.

And it laid me to rest where there was no light,

and it was in that darkness I was Blinded

by the fear—the anger and hate of what I could no longer be…

Seeing only what was left behind me,

Stop!

Do not rest where you have been settled

Find within yourself an inkling of defiance,

do not go gentle

Then I Was Brought Into The Light…

So the people around me would take me by my shaking shoulders and raise me from the dust and bramble

grip me tight, and whisper to me,

“The night will be left behind you…”

Then I was brought into the light!

A place where I could breathe, start to see anew

but the light hurt my aching eyes…

I covered my face, ignoring just how far I…

I stayed, wanting to go somewhere

But my blinders had been set in place

Light is strange when for the years you’ve been in pain.

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Project: Humans