Scarlet's Poetry Den - Litany of Scars - Notes to a Missing Lover

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"Litany of Scars - Notes to a Missing Lover"

I Am Woman (Listen to the poem in RealAudio G2)

Who can lift this weight from my shoulders, the knowledge of who I am?

It cracks across my back every time a reflection from a mirror, store window or pond captures my eye. Yet I am vain enough to love it, love my womanhood. Glory in the power that is so easily mine.

Play me the blues, Maestro. Play them till guitar strings fizzle, piano hammers thud and the bass is too heavy to hold up. Until the wine is gone and the stage burns.

Because I smile, you wonder if I hear.

I do, I do, I do ... my mother's wedding dress is stained and I never wear white for I am not pure.

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