MAUDLIN MAWS▪︎Poetry (3)

12. Springtime framehood

Playfulness has escorted me fain
Adumbrating my unruffled sight and vim yielding loose feet
Lone, wide-eyed I croushed to menacing entryways
To the door of miscarried steps I'm leaving myself
Groping mettlesome, iron-willed with zeal not fear the bane that crips death but do not kill
Rending my infancy' grasslands of its credulity seedlings
Tearing my springtime's tangerine of its timid gentle peels
Maturity sticks to me with an earnest enticipated harrowing
Cauterizing me resilient my javelin ne'er accepting defeat
My beam's vigilance sharp to docile guzzling teeth

Hours of warm sunlight I left behind
With cherries and monochromatic colored vines sheathing my girlhood
Shrouds of well taught lies and learned deceiving comedy acts
To fit in society's dystopian charts
Unflagging the gale upsurge in irrepressible furor
I'm rising in grandeur
Beyong they're limitation
Breaching their skeptics defeatism till I score the betting
Raw a flame sleeping on my tongue
Urging me serpentine to pronounce an outcry;
A holy embittered scream
A now adept woman stands
With stellar syllables, toughed bones on a beaconed throne of womanhood

18 octobre 2022