~Leslie
How deep is your pain?
Do you caress it
Stroking it gently. Embracing urgently.
Demanding. Asking. Receiving.
Like lovers on the rebound?
Do you feel it like a mother nursing her infant
Cradling and lifting the infant to her breast
Sucking with hunger. Sucking for comfort?
Are you a walking, talking, functioning maniac
with multiple personalities?
A lonely calavera dancing to a cumbia?
Do you deny, justify, or defend?
Where did it come from?
A widow in mourning, an unkind word, a victim of…?
Sleeping through winter,
Blanketed under the weight of words unsaid.
Memories forming into myths.
Journey halted.
How deep is your pain?
Did you put your Creator on trial?
You as witness, prosecutor and judge
Guilty as charged?
Faith just a name for a girl.
