The Poetess
The Way of the Poetess
by Lucy Hinton, 2006
The soul of a poetess
gets ripped apart every day
and puts herself back together
through the words she writes
She walks knowingly into pain
In obedience to beauty
and the dreaming life
Of her dissenting spirit
She takes every tear-laden step
With the courageousness
Of a heart prepared to break
For an intimate life
Brittle walls and windows shatter
In her path
Revealing a whole new view
And an opening for the enchanted wind to enter
In the softness of her strength she knows
A single delicate fragrance
Carried on that air
May awaken slumbering dreams
And stir a revolution fair