Margaret Alice Second Poems

Inspirational ideas strengthen me while the
enactment of people's scary fantasies saps
my strength leaving emptiness & a sense of
futility as tragic realism causes depression;
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Something wrong with last night’s
salad - cucumbers and tomatoes
lukewarm - not crisp and cool, the
eggs were blue, stale meat strips
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Can’t live in black and white – I’ve tried
and failed, fixed up the room with silver
the only intruding colour, impossible to
live this way, had to add pink, can’t live
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I've forgotten what it means when only one
person is allowed to live, the implications of
only you allowed to have your experience, the
rest of us are fools, complete nitwits claiming
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Tackling the mountain of today with my
usual bag of fears and anxiety, fighting
the dragon of encroaching meaningless-
ness in my head, fighting mirror images
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Romance the best fantasy, a promise,
an ethereal suggestion of something
that might possibly be, an insubstantial
beauty which cannot be touched as the
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Chronic pain is unstoppable, the doctor said,
I remember a time I was pain-free, a time of
joyous being, I wrote line upon line of new
delight in the belief great effort would make
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Improvement indeed, staying away
from flame-throwing sugar - eating
salty cornmeal products instead -
turning chemical depression into
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I stared at my little baby all through
the first night of her life, still in shock
that the little darling was part of me
and now lived and breathed on her
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Slowly wrapping my parent's presents in special paper,
decorating my sister's gift with gold and silver glitter,
putting the frail sailing ship made of shells and wood
in a box to keep its mast from breaking; it's a memory
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