I mentally formulate my words into theoretical
concrete, sketching an outline of poetic assault...

I could call you a cool glass of water.
I'm not going to because you're so much more...

I used to say "I'm working on it."
It's progress not perfection...

Your admonishment - mere monologue.
Your thoughts - humility defaced...

It has occurred to her that she is a hallway girl.
Not a room to lounge in but a passage from one...

You are the place where time stands
still and I can spend the night...

I need to get out, get away.
Tear from these chains that keep me...

Across miles of glass,
bits and bytes of...

I was born with a strong heart, solid and thick as...
Warmed and held close by my family, becoming a...

Fear
subsides...

I am alive now and only now.
I am not my past, the best of my past...

I fit the bill--
spurts of intensity...