White Walls
It is a common thing
to think ill of an earthling
but I will spit your thinking.
and defy your gravity,
savoring my own mind, for the sake of my sanity.
Reasoning, I reason
with heathenish logic
that sooth- sayers lie and condemn all their challengers.
Still,
I would seek their perfection,
if I relished anti-climax.
but heavens bear earths
and humans in its vastness.
So worlds are its universe,
and I am born into this reality,
grounded by knowledge
of truths that have set me free
from cowering before shadows
that crept from the walls,
that bound with a terror
I could never find words for
About Me
- Elizabeth Manuel
- Yorkshire, United Kingdom
- Born Elizabeth Maiden, one of four children, I have written poetry since the age of fourteen, although it didn't occur to me till recently to save or share the things I wrote as I never imagined as a young adult that I I would ever want to share my deepest thoughts with anyone. Now I keep my poems as a sort of shorthand diary of key moments from my life. My hope is that other 'poets' might derive some pleasure and comfort from mutual recognition of feeling expressed here.
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