JAMIE SUE AUSTIN

I am quiet now
and properly sedated
for your comfort.

Am I more pleasing
in this, a simple,
deconstructed, form?

I wish you could
see with the same
brilliance I do

because the colors
and the sounds
are maddening and bright.

If we had the same
visions erupting
from our skin 

you would know
the ever present need
to release them as doves.

So they could float,
and soar, mate
and die as intended. 

You were born sedate,
quiet in the womb,
a soft warm lump of flesh.

I was forged to suit
the universe and not
only you.