her family
lacking humanity
embraced their insanity
“loved” with brutality
made home a monstrosity
hell—
or at least in the vicinity
she had to get away
or be lost in their depravity
◊
baptized by poetry
words strengthened her immunity
to escape her biology
to leave them in her history
a change in geography
gave her new opportunity
to make a new reality
and write her own story
◊
~Melanie Thomason
Filed under Books, Moonpies & Naugahyde, Poetry, reblog
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This is beautiful! What an uplifting story. 🙂
Thank you, sometimes leaving makes all the difference.
Fantastic. Just love it. Excellent poem.
Thank you, I just felt the need to re-share this one.