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BUTTERFLY

I will stand up, proud When confronted by the howling ghosts of my adolescent tormentors The ones, who stripped layer after layer off my brazen shell With incestuous words born from the seeds of their own hidden jealousy The ones, who accosted my fragile demeanor With such vile actions that the scars I wear still sometimes burn today I still hear the barking noise thrown from the depths of their throats With such cruel intent as I passed by them daily Implying that I was a dog, An animal of such low breed that I had no reason to scorn them That I should actually thank them for their kindly acts to humanity Announcing to all around my ugly nature My Ugly Nature! Those words alone drive me to fits of laughter  Spawned from pure and utter madness Such damage I allowed them, Those rouges of two  They got into the core of the person I had become Festering for years, nurturing off the negative vibes That haunted me through the future of my ages If only I had possessed all the wisdom I hold today I would have banished their words and the echo of their noise From the membrane of my mind I would have flew, instantly, from the branch of a tree A golden butterfly Instead of wading through years Wrapped in a cocoon of shattered and broken dreams If only I had known the woman inside the girl I would have befriended my beauty a long, long time ago Then, perhaps, my regrets would not be As many as there are today    

Copyright © August 2000 Tammy G. Sickles


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