A dim little figure hangs back at the door, timidly peeking, but never steps in. - Who is she, this phantom who's given you breath but could not stay to watch your wings unfold?
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These ghosts are overlaid sometimes with forms of others come forth to take their places, but their roots are shallow and any strong gale might topple them like poorly-planted poplars in a break.
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You turn and see old lovers laughing in relief at their escape, holding, like Olympian judges, placards scoring all your flaws. Prominent among them stands the man that put you on that fragile pedestal - you let him! -
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and with his sledgehammer from hell proceeded to bash the base to smithereens, then wondered why you fell and broke your spirit and your heart. Up on the walls are the faces of heroines long dead, forgotten by or not known
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to most of the now living, women of courage and vision and strength, unafraid to meet the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune in their holy crusades.
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You gaze at them sadly, wanting to be them, but reaching deep inside you find not courage but fear, your strabismic vision unfocused, too myopic to pierce unaided the mantle of the herd to grasp apocalyptic wisdom.
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At the bottom sits your strength, a paltry bundle cobbled up from what you find left over when your rage and need and wanting are appeased and quiet for the nonce. These frail faulty attributes no heroine make.
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These spectres can't survive the light of day with its relentless rays. The mind sucks up all the oxygen that sparks their embers into fire in the night. So that's the time - the broad bright noon - to remember your life, in strong sunlight,
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on the table of reason through the glass of logic. That's the time to climb those cluttered corridors spiraling to the nautilus chamber – to examine the soul. © 1998, 2011 RC deWinter Published in Pink Panther Magazine, October 2011pic.twitter.com/BVn5sGBAyh
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