I searched inside to try and find the beauty
Was it my hips and thighs? Or my adolescent mind?
My nappy hair or my gorgeous eyes?
My cocoa chocolate skin?
Do you really know the woman within?
My life, my troubles . . . my insecurities
I have searched inside to try and find what lies within my adolescent mind.
My inner beauty and strength is tested with your silly reservations about who I should be
Not me . . . a figment of my inner self
A shadow . . . a whim . . . a fallacy
But not the me that I should be
I have searched inside to try and find what lies within my adolescent mind and I’ve discovered my true self . . .
The me that I should be
Only you have the ability to go, be, do whatever you choose. Allow your heart and mind be your guide and your beliefs will carry you the rest of the way. Beautifully done....
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
Using Calgary as a backdrop the author satirizes the self-serving nature of the public as it continues to fatten itself, not only physically, but egotistically as well.
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Be safe,
Karen
Peace,
Bill