to be such a restless
creature in the everyday
is one of the perplexing
thing of her
she is never content in
what she has, or what she
may want
she has a constant need
for more, there is an innate
drive within her depths that
even she at her core does not
fully understand
how could she?
ideas of how to be
faster, sleeker, smarter
than the rest rob her
of sleep, when all that
she desires is peace
that far-off foreign thing
an elusive bedfellow
to rest,
not sleep…just to rest
to have the world fall away
and her with it and into it
quiet of oblivion
longing for such a minute
and intimate thing
denied her for so long
for so long
the weight of baring such
strength has burdened her soul
fully, such things costing her the
softness that is possessed of her kin
to no longer fight for what
is rightfully hers to grasp and keep
to breathe deep…and finally exhale
-JenniferBush (now Harris) age 23) November 10, 2004-personal canon
