“Nothing external to me has any power over me”
~ Walt Whitman
Here’s a little poem I wrote to remind us to stop creating from the ideas and belief systems pressed upon us from other people’s realities. Stop buying into it and selling it as if it belongs to you. You are way more powerful than that!
She sleeps within two sheets of gold
One much richer with strength
& within her dreams she lives her life
with power and defense
But yet alive she sees her life
As destiny’s forgotten thought
Not daring to speak her own true mind
Nor challenge what she’s sought
So I think within my mind
of grey and useless verse
When may she mention her true crime
And forget life’s evil curse
Of dreams and laughter spun upon
A wheel of false gold
And stop mentioning ideas of life
-Often bought and sold-