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POEM FROM MY BOOK: LETTERS FROM A DREAM.

Held Under
By Miranda Blankenship


Must go along with innocent eyes
Blue sea turning gray
Fountains fill me with youth
Hopeful, only hopeful
It will last till I am gone
Ill slip away in a dream
Drown in a summer lake
Murder myself, held down

Eyes open- studying those stones
of green and brown
Clear- clear- clearescent
Built up by these stones;
you made the castle that held me inside
trapped
I had not the long hair to make a rope

Eternal light caught in these waters
A little girls fantasy
Shiny- crystallized world
Held under, hold under
Feeling dizzy
Such a bliss- feelings of panic
Waves of goodbye
Im leaving now
Forget the well, cant bare the smell
Ive chosen my course and taken it

These fingers left prints on your barricade
All over the walls, the filthy mirrors
You cant wipe off these prints
Dust will cover them as my body absorbs water
But still, they will, remain, untouched

I sat up after dark-
Watching that daylight bliss break through
-waking those treacherous tan souls
working for the sun that slowly shrivels their skin
raisin- like
like them; I used to be your Cinderella- like slave
in that damned castle you chose to lock me in

that water I drank from
this water that defeats me
your hand only bruised me
I can finish what you started
Hitting those white puffs of clouds
I can see you walking through your field of
painted golden luxury
I am laughing at you now
For, your game is over
And I,
I have won

Found you over the mountain
You hid all day
There- in a cave
I pasted a smile on your face
Teased you with glimpses
of a patch of skin, here and there
you watched in horror as I approached
then, suddenly, vanished
you held yourself
and whispered dreadful nightmares

I held you down
in that summer lake
till you drown
held you.
down
I held you-
Till you let go
You let go
I let you go

I held you down
in that summer lake
in summer, lake
till
you
drown