What is it that you wish to know?
How someone could live with
The edges of a life chipped away,
Breath not taken, suffocated,
Heart stilled,
Walking dead
Through the days of life,
Just so onlookers believe
The pretense they wish to see?
While I, struggling for air,
For the beating rhythms of life,
Having lived too long inside a shrinking skin,
Become petrified wood, stone,
Armored in minerals.
Only so close.
Only so close.
For I have lived years and years
Of rings and more rings,
All mineralized,
Surrounding the core
Of me. Nothing
Could truly touch,
Know the center.
Nothing ever did
Perhaps, ever will.
It is easy to live
As stone.
I am a retired teacher, enjoying everything that retirement means. In addition, I have been active in the LGBTQ community since I was four years old and marched my Ken doll with all his little Ken accouterments to the big metal trash can in the yard. Yes, I dumped Ken, along with said accouterments, into the can and slammed the lid on. My two Barbie dolls lived happily ever after.
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