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Title: A Poem for All Prisoners
Post by: Jaharkta on June 20, 2007, 09:33:46 AM
A Poem For All Prisoners

I have been a teacher of tenderness
a wet nurse to pain
I have cut keys to lost locks
entered rooms without doors
walked through walls thick as death
thrown open the prisons of the heart
and seen the skeletons embrace

but like a broken arm
the mind finally molds itself
to the cast that surrounds it
and after a while
every prisoner becomes
his own guard

I have watched you patrol
your own periphery
confiscate contraband emotions

I have beaten myself against you
breathless
like a moth against light

but there are no visiting days

the skin search goes on
I suspect you of harboring concealed passions
I have felt you tremble
shake yourself down
shoot yourself trying to escape.

~ Mary Mackey~
THE DEAR DANCE OF EROS