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The Faceless
They had no eyes
 No ears
 No mouth 
 Or nose
 They had no face at all
 
 I watched them
 Enraged by their differences
 What I could not understand
 
 I attempted to run
 In no direction in particular 
 But away from here 
 From what was different 
 From what I could not understand
 I ran until I crashed
 Collapsing onto the floor 
 Amidst a pile of glass
 
 I held a shard in my reddened, bloody hands
 I pushed the shard against my palm watching the blood pour out
 
 And then I ran towards them
 The shard held out
 Towards those who were different
 Those I did not understand
 
 I pierced them through the heart
 Watching as they fell apart
 Unto the floor
 A broken pile of glass
 Of what was different
 What I could not understand
 
 My blood covered my hand
 Dripping unto the floor and staining the broken glass crimson
 I approached the last one and ended it all
 What was different
 What I could not understand
 
 I looked down 
 Towards the broken glass 
 And noticed my reflection
 No eyes
 No ears
 No mouth 
 Or nose
 I had no face at all
 
 I drew up the shard of glass I still held in my hand
 Up to my heart 
 And plunged it in
 
 Ending what was different
 What I could not understand
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Favorite Quote:
"I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like a child stringing beads in kindergarten - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another." Brenda Ueland
I love the story within your poem. How you changed and I especially love the last line.
"Ending what was different
What I could not understand"
Very powerful poem.
~Jess