the void

In becoming a woman 

she met with a maze

and

her eyes became:

intoxicated with beauty 

too drunk to navigate

She grew hungry and ill

and delirious still

with visions of the other side

One day an opening appeared

And she was released into reality

a reality where:

no one met her eyes

A reality where:

 she could not slink by

without some haphazard disguise

She hadn't made it out in time