Our poet this week is Deniece Woodward. She is a member of Teen Voices Emerging--a program that
gives a voice to Boston teen girls. Prema Bangera, a proud director at this organization hooked me up with
these talented poets. More information about this organization can be found at
www.facebook.com/teenvoicesemerging
Twin
Among Twigs
by
Deniece Woodard
Here
her rhyme book lays. A simple, small notebook.
Its
pages bear no lines, for it is ruled by the strokes you leave on it.
But
it hasn’t got those either.
No
character, but it could have hers.
Yes,
her, and all the mess she is.
The
physical scars her past suicide attempt left,
and
the emotional scars left by everyone who told her:
“Get
over it.”
“You’re
just looking for attention.”
“Stop
feeling sorry for yourself.”
The
ignorance which uttered, “People have it worse than you.”
As
if her problems lose validation because someone else’s are “worse.”
Like
the mirror above the bathroom sink,
she
should see the damage left by this caustic earth in its presence.
She’ll
batter the pages with her insecurities,
empty
the clip, once loaded with her pain,
pierce
the off-white sheets with her blade of self doubt
till
she’s lacerated the last leaf.
Her
soul will assume it’s found its long lost twin among these twigs.
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