Ignorance annoyed me and the heat never stayed in this house. He told me that things would be different this time.

That the gas and water would stay on and he wouldn’t raise his hand. He said it would be different and I believed him.

I believed because I wanted to, I almost needed to believe. I am the spineless salute to the everyday American woman, modern of course.

 

My sister from another time wore red & blue and all the colors of the rainbow. She flew high like a nightingale and sung free like fake freedom granted by white slaveowners.

She was proud and strong, a mother and a lover. She was strong for those that couldn’t stand, those that needed faith, spirit and a source of energy unbound. Boundless limitations and the world as a pearl. I was born with the world and gave back the sky.

 

Before then, I sang out but my voice sounded strange on stage. I knew my lines, but when it was my time to speak, they spoke for me as if I was mute.

My time was not short lived, only the coming of my voice; but by then the message had changed. Where I gained fortune, I lost fame and vice versa.

From the misunderstood Queen of Egypt to the glamour of a paper princess. I took leaps and bounds forward, bountiful through repetition, beautiful through the gifts provided and the ones I took with my own hand.

We have struggled, we have traded on in face of danger, in face of fear, of change. In the face of those that live in the mouth of madness.

 

All this had been supposed so I can reach this point to hear you say,

”Hey baby, why don’t you come over here and let me see that kitty purr.”

Only to pass out after one go.