Especially for Them

...it is known, you know? And its wrong, right? Yea, that's why I write...

Withdraw from me all emotion
Thanks for caring so little that it was just enough to let me know that your fruits lack actual nutrition needed to strengthen such a Queen
Enlightenment at one time
Now is revealed in true light
leaving me light-headed, but not light-hearted
Claiming to be love, when you are a true embodiment of its exact opposite
Why did you turn away from me?
This, what? my second dark hour?
Do you withdraw because you don't know what to say?
Oh, but you passed your judgment years ago...
Maybe I wish I never knew you
Maybe I never did
For if I am aware of nothing else
I am acutely aware of my own pain
So I appreciate the warm smiles and shifty eyes that greet mine because in the4se actions are more than the seeming emptiness and awkward silences they may appear to be
They judge me not and share my grief without words
Not many are those who would endure an uncomfortable silence with me, so hydrangeas and begonias replace presence but still differ from those who flee
I appreciate you all-- for I still understand that we each have our own way
And really, I still know the pendulum swings
like the world turns, and grass grows
while waves roll in with high tide crashing upon the shore
But I especially want Them to know
Either you are counted or discounted
Left or right, black or white-- and I do not choose, for I am humble enough to realize my place
and you will, with the power you so believe you wield, attempt to cut me down
So high-- so mighty you have become that you have no idea as to how low you have truly sunken, but...
I continue. I grow. I THRIVE and I am BLESSED-- despite you...

Yea. But this isn't really for you. It's especially for Them.

Queen Poetess B Copyright © 2009