"Accolades For Valor" by Matthew Johnson (1993): "She goes through life, gliding, a benevolent seer/ Stopping constantly to aid those in need, those not even dear/ I, an individual, swept up in the storm/ Of a woman, who, in search of herself, defies the norm/ As I, an outcast, fighting myself, yet daring to believe/ That if I ask her aid and succor (and possibly love) she won’t leave/ Giving her heart, mind and soul to every known cause/ Causing me to look about my selfish malestrom, and in introspection give pause/ For all her words, she won’t write about me, does she fail to perceive/ What the object knows to be true and what make believe—/ Words rarely present, presence much more of one/ Is to wish for more as good as wishing for the sun?/ Energy is precious, as I know well to be true/ And I am curious to know, Lorraine, what I can ask of you/ Names are important, they make us who we are/ Much more important than people give credit, by far/ The masses may cry “Lori!” and let them do so!/ For the numbers who call that cannot understand/ They will never know the Lorraine inside, the one crying to live/ Will be forever frustrated by those whose minds are like a sieve/ There may be those who rob her of her world, let them scratch the skin/ They are as pinpricks to the steel within/ These accolades are not exaggeration, not pretentious/ I Just want you to know that there is at least one who is conscious/ That the world is a better place for the life of a woman named Lorraine."

Monday, December 15, 1997

Soft Shell










Unfestered innocence;
childlike naivity;
Suddenly,
sent back into the past
or
into myself...
to a girl I once was
or the new girl I am to be;

Not much different,
but not much the same;
Maybe,
caught somewhere in between;

Wander amoung the fibers of my web--
that chaotic truth threshhold which I weave.
My clumsily, well-constructed, emotional labyrinth;
a mesh of fear and doubt
of confusion; pain; and at the same time
wondrous curiosity.

Can it be scraped from the corners;
blown dust into oblivion
or is it part of a metamorphosis
I must complete?

December 15, 1997

posted by Lorraine Courigan at 5:12 PM

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