In Their Image

In Their Image

A Poem by troublewalks

Sara was a gorgeous sweet woman

With a knack for making life harder than it needed to be

She had a way of segmenting portions of life apart from one another

Living in extremes and she knew how to be extreme

So one night she sniffed snow that matched the frigid night

Locked herself inside a closet

Called her mother

And finally opened up her mind to the world

…she just did it with a gun

So they reconstructed her head

They closed her off again and stuffed her head with

the tissue paper expectations that they had always gifted her

so that even in death she was formed in the image

that they needed to see

© 2017 troublewalks


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To be seen as who you are not the who others perceive or wish you to be an internal struggle. Very emotional and moving poem.

Posted 7 Years Ago


Hello and welcome to WC. Wow, this poem grabbed me. Not sure if this is teenaged angst re: fighting against becoming something she didn't want to grow into. something else. But either way, finding ones own way is challenging at all stages and this poem speaks to that. Great job!

Posted 7 Years Ago



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Added on November 22, 2017
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