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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738
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She told me once I bruised her ribs I kicked so much while in the womb. And yes, it's true I was born sick, screamed protest of wearing skin-- I guess I never stopped kicking and screaming and pounding my head against the walls of being alive. But funny? The second that I am wished "dead"? Perversely I flip up my finger instead, defiant that I'll not be stopped. Tell me I can, and I'm sure to fail. Tell me I can't? and the only jail that can hold me is still my own skin... |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
you'd look pretty funny without it... lol... girl, the skin we wear is ours and while we can change the habits it seems to have we can't change the skin.... |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Trust me. I like skin altogether too much. Er...other people's anyhow. I'm just grateful the stuff repairs itself. All that kicking and screaming does damage.    |
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garysgirl 
since 2002-09-29
Posts 19237Florida, USA |
Karen, another thought provoking write... leaving the reader pondering his/her thoughts. Thank you very much.  Hugs,  Ethel |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
I love this! adding to my library. Maree  |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
er adding now |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
serenity blaze - you do write from the inside for sure... BC |
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Nightshade
since 2001-08-31
Posts 13962just out of reach |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
serenity, You shed your skin, would you really have me look. |
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Brad Majors
since 2001-04-03
Posts 2647Georgia |
awesome piece |
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Sudhir Iyer Member Ascendant
since 2000-04-26
Posts 6943Mumbai, India : now in Belgium |
defiant willing against will boundlessly free- yet skin imprisoned... wonderful provoking thought regards sudhir |
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Selina Member
since 2003-06-07
Posts 62Philadelphia, PA, USA |
Very thought-provoking. I liked it a lot. I'm even going to send it to a friend of mine, I know she'll really like it. |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows |
One of my children was born with only myself and a nurse in attendance. He was born in a rage. He even grabbed a hank of the nurse's hair and yanked it out of her head, patch of bloody skin and all. I can still see the image of him on his back with a cold glare in his eyes as he shook the bloody patch of scalp in her face. He was well over ten pounds at birth and had his strength amplified by rage. He targeted her, I think, because he had not needed to be spanked to draw his first breath since he emerged yelling, but she smacked him anyway. I realized after a few years with him that he had died in the middle of an argument and at next birth was still at the same point of wishing to continue the argument where it had been left off. Of course, time, circumstances and perhaps people had all changed. His temperment today is of a lion; mostly sleepy and docile until provoked to anger. However, he also is very creative. His art work calms him. I like a poem that stirs the dust in my memory warehouse. Thank you for for this. |
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Magnus
since 2001-10-10
Posts 14135South Carolina, USA |
I think your skin met it's match when you declared war on it... Good write Karen. |
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Edder Senior Member
since 2003-04-02
Posts 671 |
Tell me I can't? and the only jail that can hold me is still my own skin... for some reason i have no trouble believing this... |
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Canon_D_111 Member
since 2003-06-04
Posts 58New York USA |
my skin...my prison...in this house my soul cries freedom...Yet I have vowed to overcome this flesh...I will have success |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Well. Hmmm. I feel a bit better now. I trust everyone survived my little tirade? sigh?  I wonder if the straightjackets come in black....  |
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morefiah Member
since 2003-03-26
Posts 150Spanish Town, Jamaica |
Umm... as a lover of skin myself (especially that belonging to others of the opposite sex) let me just say that I love this. |
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Poet deVine
Administrator
Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Some of us paint our skin to camouflage the person we really are. Intense write..very intense.  |
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inkedgoddess Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-19
Posts 7392Ohio |
without the shell, im a mess |
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Larry C
since 2001-09-10
Posts 10286United States |
The constraints of humanity...never stopped you before! If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again. |
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Elizabeth
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Member Ascendant
since 1999-06-07
Posts 6871Minnesota |
I know this well, Karen, I'm the same way. Well written....good to read your words again.  God bless America, my home sweet home. |
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Martie
Moderator
Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Feeling this! |
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Aenimal Member Rara Avis
since 2002-11-18
Posts 7350the ass-end of space |
K explained.. |
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Ratleader
since 2003-01-23
Posts 7026Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass |
Yep, though a jail that's voluntary is called a hotel.....and can be a good thing, depending on the reasons why you volunteer.... ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸¸¸ºº> ~~(¸¸ ¸¸ºº> ~~~(¸¸ER¸¸ºº> |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
Well now do you feel better I sure do, and now my skin is feeling pretty good. |
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suthern
since 1999-07-29
Posts 20723Louisiana |
I'd always thought my mother completely dismissed the idea of me attending college... only to wonder, many years down the road... if she counted on her saying I couldn't as the one way to insure I did. *G* So how I do identify... and how I like this write! *S* |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
and I thought I was the only one! sheesh. Thanks you guys. Love you all... |
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brian sites Senior Member
since 2002-06-25
Posts 1475usa |
I know what you said about this.... but I dont care..grin *(sticking tongue out)* this IS you this sums your strength so well you make me smile flippin them birds lol hug |
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