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Charles B. Neff Posts New Poem for Series Exclusively for AD Members
Saturday, June 7, 2008 9:58:00 AM

by Charles B. Neff

Poetry

Second Skin is the second of eight poems that were written over many years, starting in the depths of the most distressing period of my life and reaching – gradually, finally – new understanding. I didn’t plan the individual poems as a coherent collection and didn’t realize the story they told until I recently read through a number of older poems. Those poems felt like preludes to newer ones, revealing, in concert, what was really going on inside me. Though much occurred in my life before the first poem took shape, and though I am still very much alive, I call this collection: Lifecycle. At very least, it traverses the circular path of one of the most significant cycles in my life so far.
A new poem will be added for each of the next six weeks;
A previous poem in Lifecycle is: Half-Alive

Second Skin

The young man had looked around

And wove out of what he admired

A coat of many colors.

Later he’d added bangles

And they sparkled and shone

Like the coats of many others.

As the coat grew heavy,

Laden down with decorations,

He stumbled and fell

And could not rise

Until the sun blazed hot

On costume jewelry

And turned it to dust.

An older man rose,

Heavy with forgotten feelings

Yet lightened in a different way.

He could breathe again

And face two mirrors

One of the world,

One of the heart.

Eyes opened, he saw

His real coat, himself,

Unlike any others.

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