I am not special, by Fotoula Reynolds

 

Every now and then
I see a clearing
A winding road
Trying to show me
Where I came from
Where I belonged once

On days that seem to stand still
I hear the ground echo
Words bounce from stone to stone
As they whisper a story that lies
In the disquiet of my voice

Inspiration, born in a dream
A sense of kin or a myth?
Flowers show me death
Red, green and blue
Cut deeply into the earth
An eagle in flight
Sharp against the sky

Rows of silos reveal themselves
Like soldiers on guard under moonlight
I try not to blink as the wind twirls around them
A house inscribed with images of skin that
Speak in a tattooed language of the dead

I walk a broken life
Both inside and outside of myself
I am not special
Snow falling on eyelashes is special
Pain and anguish is not
When did I learn to see in the dark?

- Fotoula Reynolds


(Artwork: Hidden, by Katherine Reynolds)


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