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  • Poem: Adorn – 14/07/21

    Poem: Adorn – 14/07/21

    Toss the book aside,
    the one with all the rules,
    adorn thyself with personal care,
    self-love,
    amalgamate the zones
    around the heart and mind,
    Complicated? Yes.
    Internal battle,
    discoveries,
    what a sheer delight.

    Perhaps I can learn
    how to rise,
    to gather wind,
    a magical,
    momentous Me,
     
    for,
    I now have direction,
    I have purpose,
    it’s taken some years,
    dragged ten behind, in fact,
    maturity intact
    yet preserved as immaturity,
    I now realise the purpose of
    the lock on my documents,
    the purposeful silence in keeping
    me from me.

    Until now.

    I sing into
    the skies,
    shriek with delight,
    stroke my tones,
    words real and imaginary,
    so right,
    I’ve been looked after by an Almighty,
    my future seems bright.

    Akimbo was I,
    but no longer unsteady,  
    evermore will I
    emit my triumphant confessions,
    my elegies
    and head on toward
    the horizon,
    I’m sure it’s amazing,
    what’s waiting for me.

    I will reach certain peaks
    with hard work,
    it’s all up to destiny?

    No, sweet darling,
    it’s all up to me.

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