Tuesday, June 11, 2024

She is what she is December 2013

 

She beats herself up

About beating herself up,

Always casting the first stone

When as the Bible claims

She has no right to,

This worm ouroboros thinking

The cat chasing its own tail,

Uncertain as to what

Do to with it when it catches it,

Finally, concluding

She is what she is,

And shouldn’t deny it,

Or feel guilty about it,

Or regret what she does

When she does what she does

To survive,

She can’t live her life

Devouring herself,

Hitting her own head

With rocks she has

No right to throw,

She must cease

Waking up and thinking

About what other people

Might be thinking

About her.

“I am what I am,”

As Popeye might have

Once said,

Only to get on with her life

She needs a lot more

Than just a can of spinach
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