Hide and Seek

My safety lies in my mind

Where my thoughts are my own,

And yet even there

Thoughts arrive that scare me.

My safety lies in my memories

Because they?re my memories

With no intrusion of

someone else?s reality.

Sometimes I play hide and seek

for a safe place . . .

Sometimes I play hide and seek

with safety.

Veneer

Amber red sears to steel blue crackles

beneath the veneer,

the nice girl

compliant, craven veneer.

The veneer thins

Can bend no more.

Enough injustice!

Enough insensitivity!

Enough intensity!

Enough emotion!

Enough heat!

Enough!

LaDonna Mills