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The mess that is me

by Lacy D Phillips

Give.
My gift of inches
transposed to miles.

Sympathize.
I hesitate...
tempted to dull the edge
of what I've said.

Control.

What now I feel is mystery to me.

Am I…

Spared or Injured
Judged or Blamed

Rejected or Relieved

Angered or Assuaged

Disposed images of me
depose my image of you.

01/26/2006

Author's Note: Fragmented. Like my thoughts. "Give, Sympathize, Control" or "Datta, Dayadhvam, Damyata" in Sanskrit is an allusion to the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, Second Brahmana in the Rig Veda which relates the story of "What the Thunder Said" which is also referenced in T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland"

Posted on 01/26/2006
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