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Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Poem for Everyman

This poem was given out in my class yesterday and I thought it was beautiful and true and wanted to share with the rest of you.


I will present you
parts
of
my
self
slowly
if you are patient and tender.
I will open drawers
that mostly stay closed
and bring out places and people and things
sounds and smells, loves and frustrations,
hopes and sadnesses,
bits and pieces of my life
that have been grabbed off in chunks
and found lying in my hands.
They have eaten
their way into my memory,
carves their way into
my heart.
Altogether-you or I will never see them-
they are me.
If you regard them lightly,
deny that they are important
or worse, judge them
I will quietly, slowly
begin to wrap them up,
in a small piece of velvet, 
like worn silver and gold jewelry,
tuck them away
in a small wooden chest of drawers
and close.

-Anonymous


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