What lies beneath my distant stare...
Beneath that cloak...
Beyond that hair...?
What thoughts embrace my wandering mind..?
A sordid past,
My thief of time.
A lasting pain of childhood lost...
'Around my neck,
My albatross'.
Those moments lived, those moments moored,
To be re-lived,
Forever more....
May 16, 2000 Copyright © Cathy Palmer-Scruggs
Graphic by Catt Scruggs
Photograph taken of me by Sam Propst in 1984
