Change
Something changed
I changed
I looked at my dreams
Chose the most impossible one of all
Made it come true
Everything changed
Insight
Late one lonely night, some years ago
I discovered
I wasn't who I thought I was
Shying away
Yet helpless to avoid
In the corner of my wall-eyed stare
Gaping, grinning back at me, a mutant twin
Joined at the psyche, then ripped apart
Thrown down to dwell
In the dank basement of my subconscious
I denied she existed
This capering madwoman
Who ruled my nether hours, my sleepless nights
Banging incessantly on the pipes and furnace ducts below
Intruding on my dreams
I closed my eyes
Set my jaw
Pouting, angry
Like a child refusing bitter medicine
She would not shut up
Or leave me alone
Just kept hammering away down there
Another lonely night, I finally
Gave up
I took my medicine, astonished to find
It wasn’t so bitter after all
I unlocked the basement door and
Invited her to come up out of the darkness
Shyly, we embraced
We talked
We laughed
She gave me back my heart
Wrapped in colored paper and curly ribbons
To my mirrored twin, I returned her life
Wrapped in sunlight
First Submissions
find
the right poems
the right publishers
compose
the cover letters
print
& collate
buy
the envelopes
the appropriate postage
fill out
the address labels
the self-addressed envelope (with stamp)
insert
the cover letter
the self-addressed stamped envelope
(poems)
swallow hard
seal it up
drop it
into the mailbox
try to pretend
a rejection won't matter
try to pretend
small cuttings from my soul
didn't get stuffed into the envelope
as well
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