The Secretary

"I have been consumed with the deficiency of self I am wearing of explaining why. A long-ago time of battering, condemnation, censure, blame, I was reprimanded, denounced as nothing, Cut up and chastis..."

"How are you?  they ask (often for show) As though they really want to know I respond I’m okay or I’m fine Because their message is get out of my way I have someplace to go, do you mind? It’s real..."

"An assertion was softly spoken to me that I have overcome my past I disagree (peacefully) and I declare I avow in contrast To overcome means to beat It means to conquer, overwhelm It means to crush..."

"On the wings of pain A child is born A girl A daughter A ray of sun A joy A problem A weapon A toy Criticized Hit Blamed Never herself She grows She tries She is: Mother Daughter Wife Friend Never he..."

"Defeated by the department store mirror, again Surrounded by the shroud of substance once needed Hatred, despair, spread through her mind Coursing with a life of their own Pulsating, vibrating The s..."

"A judgment place upon a feeling or poem Is a judgment placed upon a heart It pierces to the very soul With a comment biting and oh so cold Why do they not want to hear The undistorted facts thus to..."