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By Erica Lampe

 

Captured under your voodoo spell

I dance a dance; no one can tell

Day in and day out

I tap to this tune

To a song of mortal doom

 

OH! For some water!

To quench this thirst

For I’ve prancing

Verse after verse

 

Dry and fatigue

I have on request

Please cut the strings

So I can finally rest.

 

 

 

My eyes are a window

Yet my soul is black

I look upon the mirror

It only stares me back

 

Glaring at my pupils

I hope to see some light

But every time I search

I see the black of night

 

I try again the next night,

But despite searching more,

I gaze at the glass

To see my darkened core

 

In hopes that one day

I will finally see

A spark of glimmering light

Within the tarnished me.

 

 

 

 

Laying in the grass I see

A whole new world above the trees

In a rush, the leaves twirl

Falling, falling in a swirl

 

I hear a fluster to my left

When a bird shoots up with heft

Into the cool autumn sun

Gliding further; just the one

 

A quick glimpse of where it came

A plant-like flutter quite the same

The reeds below sway softly to

The musical-ness of this outdoor tune

 

I close my eyes in this grace

As the wind blows in my face

Wanting this peacefulness to last

I become saddened, for I have class!