How do you?

How do you train yourself

To look away from the light as it streams your way,

How don't you blame the sparkles

For kissing the tips of your hair with gleaming

Likeness with the truth,

How have you made yourself?

It's a bath of satin to your toes,

How do you turn yourself around like a rose,

Like a beautiful thread of ruffled emotion?

How do you breathe yourself to sleep at night?

Reviews

[Thomas Fitzgerald]

An exercise in ability and power, a beautiful prose with kind imagery and self knowledge, well done, great read.

[arlery]

Ah, this was really good. In fact, I loved it.
Especially the ending, but then maybe that's because that's what I some times wonder too.

[Ruth]

`This is excellent! How do you basically do anything when you are not the nicest person, I find this interesting, the cliche "how do you sleep at night" has nothing on this! xx

[Elizabeth Marie O'neil-..]

I'm not sure if it's just me, but this one felt . . .
Spiteful? Maybe not. but the way you expressed this all was very well done. You are a very talented writer.

[sarah]

great flow it felt peaceful but heartfelt wonderful work!

[laughinglullaby]

Very vivid. I liked it. It has a unique flow to it.

[Judy Ponceby]

lovely, introspective......like the image

[A.Noel]

interesting and beautiful work.

[Ravyne Hawke]

What a beautiful yet haunting poem.. great job and a favorite

[Lilly Negoi]

interesting inertia :) what lies beneath the layers of a "satin bath"?!...