bell jar

she speaks to me through the hollowed glass

through the spaces between fine silk and linen

and leaves her red fingerprints on the doorways

to tell me where she's been,

though i know not where she's going.

i see her in the darkest moments before dawn

when she visits my windowsill

and smiles to remind why i even bother to get up

every morning

the sunlight streams

in waves

down the lines of her

silhouette.

this is how i know her

she is quiet

many do not see her, or even care to

and no one knows her the way i do

she is infinite

she has no boundaries

she is my inner inhibitions

she is me.

Author's Notes/Comments: 

written a few years ago about the parts of me i liked back then.

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