I mistook you for a perennial, I grew addicted to your smell.
How you forced a coin down the wishing well.
All is swell in all that is dead,
You disappeared in the Winter time, leaving a mark on the earth.
Your dizzying effect even reached the banks of the river.
Eroding its barriers between the river and me 
I thought I would fall, what with all your tyranny.
You made a stranger of the nat...

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Himalayan Balsam, I held you in the palm of my hand
Your beauty was relentless
I paid a penance as I laid you to rest between my index and middle finger
Thoughts of you would linger.

Your absent scent reached the apex of my nail
Firmly embedded between the varnish and bedding.
You were beautifully invasive; I all plaintive.
Your vibrant colour echoed your parents beauty.

You grew apart...

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I saw a fig tree the other day 
And was immediately reminded of the Plath analogy 
How once the figs are ripe, you must choose one at the expense of others 
Implying that by choosing one, the others must die 
I thought of my future vocation 

I was known by a nation tucked away 
In quiet inconspicuous circumstances 
The elephant in the room
But today I think of this analogy differently 
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I met a man the other day,

He paid attention to how my hips swayed 

He laid a napkin down under my cutlery

I said in my mind don’t hurry but stay a while

So I lit up my face with an exuberant smile

He decided to go the extra mile

The tenderness seeped from his lips as my own did hide 

I felt at last I shall be a bride.

I rejected any snide comments they made in my mind 

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I am woman, a woman sourced from another woman

I am an equal to my brother, but another decides differently

Hints of passion are mistaken for lust

My trust issues have a founding father, but I’d rather not mention their name

The patriarchy preceded me, but my intelligence supersedes me

They try to get in between my personality and looks

Books, I use to fill my thoughts, but ...

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My mind, my body, my soul

Whole and plentiful

But yours an abyss

I escape to when I'm bored.

You draw me in, create nothing of their wisdom 

They warned me not to go near you

I told them to hear me out 

I'd shout the place down 

And all you'd do is frown

With scorn, I'd follow you into the depths of the night

To the grave yard of my plight, your pallid skin never...

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I feel the wind seep onto my cheeks, I can't understand what it is telling me

I feel it's brash abrazen currents, as they unmask my myriad of sin.

It all came too suddenly, now like an exfoliated cliff edge or the dagger of a sword,

I am sharper than ever, they believe I am here to fill their void

They avoid taking responsibility, their naivety is killing and twisted, I laugh in j...

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Unity is what he promised, 

Delegated by lies but relegated by my kindness 

They thought that they could abuse it. Twist it and confuse them, 

 I choose you over them

Any day, I'll walk away 

I always promise you that I'll stay 

But we both know it is a lie 

I long to torment you; to live rent free in your mind 

The kind of subservience you'll never forget, oh baby gir...

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Lilith you were brilliant 

Brilliantly false and irrevocably sinister 

Your beauty would prosper for centuries.

Indoctrinate the proletariat, the common man.

And fixate on the minds of the yearned 

She earned the right to seduction 

The abduction of her soul was ever imminent, by Adam.

But she could adopt the disguise of purity.

She could feign the edges of dignity in the g...

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Womanhood

I am tender like a flower, sprawled like a panther, soft like a dagger.
Waiting to pierce you, I will not make you stagger. 
I sit pretty, cross legged, waiting for you appraisal. 
Firmly embedded in a lagoon of earthworms, snails, and emotion. 

My neck has thorns in my upper echelons. 
Watch me grow as I glow!. 
Don't hide me from sight! I'll fight with all my fickle might!. 
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Oh, I felt it then, a sudden surge of pain. 
A familiar entity of constant ubiquity,
yet simultaneously not there. 
I tried to feign indifference, but it soon became clear upon the springing of those dainty edges. 
I was harrowed by despair. 
How could I not care?
Their meek, limp, cunning stance made me sigh with frustration. 

Their insistence to grow with an air of indignation to all th...

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