Finding Her Way…

A Poem by Azka

Inspired by and dedicated to the Publication "I'll Find My Way: An Anthology of Short Stories". Here's to never quitting, finding our ways and being our own identity

Tainted reflections of her own identity,

Haunting through the eyes of her soul.

Burning ice and fire,

Swimming through her flesh.

Where survival is little bit of something,

And an innocent prisoner is a woman's heart.

The black garden away from the cliff,

Is her fool's paradise, an offering for the gods.

Taming her wild self, within features of herself,

Young ambitions, in her peaceful place of misery.

Words from her protector, for her sisters and Autumn Harvest,

'No' is not a choice, their first lesson being.

If home remembered not, in preparations of life,

Is a chance taking charge, over her dead body.

Running water, and red swing set,

Nothing turned into everything.

The hope-bringer hallucinated her,

Stepping into the great game of a weak woman.

Following her music, she eons for a moment,

Twenty-six seconds, and she takes her right decision.

Hours and infinity mattered no more,

Warm, windless day, flushed sky.

A shift in space, and shackles of her trapped world break,

Taking another chance at life, herself being her role-model.

Running away to another way, the fair way,

Her Perfect choice, she goes on.

By way of paved and unpaved paths, in search of herself,

Because this is what matters, the bravest place on Earth.

© 2016 Azka

Author's Note

To all the struggling and extraordinaire women who have been inimitable in life and paved their paths to discover themselves. Let yourself be our own identity and no one else decide for you or define you.

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Marianne Rose

I'm glad you wrote the author's note- it helped me to place your poem in a context to understand more of its depth. Your images and flow are beautiful,many there is a uniquely strong voice that comes through, a mixture of strength and painful experiences. Thank you for such a thought-provoking and rich read!