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a witch's deceiving vision

you truly are upon first glance

your eyes how they reflect Heaven's

sweet promise

your depth of inner beauty

they only further enhance

just as true beauty knows not

the claws of death

confession knows no reliable boundaries

when it comes to the more common taboos

of shame

yet nor can any plight of pledged fancy

for the trade off of one's self worth

ever hope to be gained

lest we toil

we will never fully manage to succeed

in such chasms of often self induced

delirium

death is viewed but as a happy medium

provoked by society's endless taunt and

greed

too paranoid and dark is my own utter

bewilderment

so lead me out and passed this wretched

passage of seemingly self made madness

as a much too wise man once said

salvation is attained by being so clear

headed and inwardly strong

that one is able to meet one's fiercest

opponent half way and be victorious

in his fearful quest

but only if his heart's original intention

is pure

for me

upon reading that

I knew that the battle within

had indeed been won................

(Jan. 26, 1997)