New Voices

Nobody knew me,

 and that was my choice

 

The distance I kept

 protecting my voice

 

Though others had promised,

 their words fell in vain

 

My spirit untarnished

  whose breath I lay claim

 

My heart often suffered

 the pain I’d been caused

 

But a force pulled me inward,

 all hurt left on pause

 

This pathway my own,

 its direction so clear

 

Where alone I must travel

 —new voices to hear

 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2018)

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