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Subject: Dreams Held in Phantom Ribbons

Author:
Sharon

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Date Posted: 23:13:55 01/15/08 Tue

my heart gets pushed and pulled in foreign shapes
beating forced rhythms found in lonely songs
I feel phantom ribbons holding like tape
gagging the voice that knows, where I belong

My starvation reflects not in mirrors
I am hungry though not for food,
It's not from poverty that I shiver
it's living the image someone tattooed

My ideals are laced with acid which burns
many holes in my heavy chain of fraught,
I teach the young and yet never learn
to live my dream, for dreams cannot be taught

I routinely wake early each morning
wondering why I will not catch my wave,
I have had more than my share of warnings
it's torturous not being very brave

I feel little support to take the plunge
in the end, I'll be the one left to blame,
if I do not take the first step and lunge
in the water... I'll be left in the rain

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