Sunday, October 20, 2024

the stalker inside aug 24, 2012

  

she lives with one stalker

she can't keep outside her door

 it is the beast she has inside her

 since she was a little girl

 like a Bruce banner in which a hulk resides

 always hungry even as she seeks to starve it

she can't be rid of it

a beast she measures in different size jeans

 each to fit how much the beast

she has exposed each morning

when she rises from sleep

I never see it even if she thinks I do

perhaps it really doesn't exist

 except as a creation and her brain

 she looks in mirror like that fairy tale queen

who envies snow White

asking who is the fairest

when she really is the fairest

 seeing only the flaws

 this stalker stalking her daily weekly yearly

stirring up some aspect only she can see

 a scarecrow she sees as plum

as the hulk that leaps out unexpectedly

 which she seeks to kill off

with a stake to its heart

 if never dies

yet sometimes she and it

 come to an uncomfortable truce

 


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