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Two lands
A trace of tree
By Anushka Shenoy
By Tracy Tree
in this peaceful place.
There are two lands
held together by only a rickety
bridge.
Please, not now, please
not yet.
A land of pink girlhood,
full of white roses, so petite,
a land so innocent and sweet.
I am not strong enough
to pull through.
On the other side lies
the land of womanhood,
full of black magic, and
covered in a red fog.
It holds you, chokes you,
and you cannot escape.
But you are pushed onto the
bridge.
Hurricanes roar, storms galore.
There is no hard ground:
You are forced
ahead.
You are pushed
on to the bridge.
There is nowhere to go, but on
and on, and on
through the everblackening
blackness.
Wait! You cry
I am not ready yet.
I still belong here,
To be passionately aware
me.
O f each magic moment;
With nare a trace of self
Thereby, rem aining in a
My im ag in in g s are not
doubt
constant
wasted
I trust this mystery com
State of bliss, in Discovery.
pretending to know
what I crave or condemn.
pletely.
M ystery weaves me, u n
I surrender my thoughts,
My imagries are the wings
ravels me
my tiny tunnel vision.
which rock me to and fro
I hear not pathetic fears,
adventure, to home, again
Weaves me again.
my hopeless hopes.
and again.
We dance, it bites and ex
Vigilant am I at the gate
I feel a kindred spirit
cites
of thought;
to the little Aspen tree;
A llow ing n o t, longings
too wild to fear, too inno
me...save
and aversions
cent to bow,
To notice this moment.
To creep unnoticed into
trembling in the cradle of
All the way
to the land of the red fog.
a sk in g
n o th in g
of
Mystery.
T ire d o f beino Sick and Tired...
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&
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imaginings.
I am a simple tree, simply
-
By Savon Lindsay
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