there is a place,a sanctuary,somewhere inside,where I can restwithout clothes,without mascara,without painted lipssinging staccato songs,and waxed skin glowingin its unnatural perfection,where I am therefor my eyes only,without mindless wanderings,without seductive snares,without violating what I love most,without settling for anything lessthan who I am and want to be,where I can speak with my own voice,not waiting to be received or extolled,where I can stand in front of my heart's desireand not twitch a muscle or breath,where I can hold and burn in the fireof my own wildness and maverick selfunleashed without walls and checks,where I can claim my gifts, my humanness,and a lifetime of storieswaiting to be heard and releasedinto the orgasmic mysteryof all that is and isn't me,for my eyes only.come with me.......as I take you there....

sometimes 
like today,
my being smiles
a quiet smile,
like a candle flame
that's held up
through storms,
melting herself
and bending
with the winds,
not because
she's scared of the dark,
but because
she's found a way
to find herself,
by dying
to a world
that others cannot see
just as yet;
a world that speaks to her
in whispers and dreams,
as it turns the wheels
ever so slowly and surely,
in every life she lights,
while she weeps.