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Image: A Musin Yohan, via Magpie Tales


trouble overhead
something weighing 
heavy 
on the mind

i rise
obedient
under a vengeful brow
pulling up my heels

Raising my voice!

i go
back
to my roots
wielding my habits of comfort

i walk the way
of my mother
singing psalms
soothing the sky

Rene~ June 2013
For all of my sisters

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