I FLOAT AWAY
I float away.
I am nothing more
than ashes and atoms
held loosely together
by this skin,
this skin that hides
who I really am.
Skin on a face
neither pretty nor young
and with your look of disdain
I grow older.
With your petty pity
I just
float away.
I float away,
refuse to face the day
the violence
the horror ...
Lock me away
in some ivory tower
I'm crazy,
insane,
cannot see past
the frames of disaster
and panic
so I just ...
float away.
Michelle Balletto-Wooten
11/28/11
