Girls are ghosts Dancing as the haunted woodland’s gracious hosts Restrained to exist in the ebony abyss of a desolate midnight Seeking adoration only from the eye in the sky’s scintillating light Swirling shadows aflame reveal their gaunt silhouettes Onlookers gaze in horror upon their blazing pirouettes Dusting the air with an iridescent blanket of ashes Little do they know that death didn’t deliver their final lashes In life, they spent a menagerie on display Untold stories, lives erased, and forced to hideaway In death, they’re revered as demons to be exorcised By the very same people who’d once had them baptized The piercing prick of their persecution lingers on A perennial wound where blood was forcibly drawn Yet their coagulate catastrophe forever bleeds Only to be undone by a world that finally meets their needs Controlled, criticized, and cut down to make way for another As were their mothers and their mother’s mother A lineage of invisibility for the sake of man Sacrificed on his alter of righteousness to prevail as better than Their shrill voices sing a paralyzing song Heading a warning to any that come along “They’ll drive you mad and tell the story of how it was your fault” Words stinging like the rawness of an open wound in salt Underneath vines of waltzing wisteria they prance Praying their daughters won’t become victims of the same circumstance A sisterhood that’s fought for countless lifetimes Vowing never to stop until they’ve rid the world of all its hateful crimes If you listen closely, you can hear them call out from beyond the grave An answer to one final question is all that they crave “Now that you know our stories to be true, If I cut out my heart, would that still not be enough for you?” Alexa Meighen is a young artist born and raised in Concord, North Carolina. Growing up, she was always inexplicably drawn to the magic of storytelling in a variety of mediums such as writing, dancing, acting, and filmmaking. Despite her health issues, including a rare autoimmune disease called Relapsing Polychondritis, Meighen continues to devote herself to her artistic passions and creative endeavors in the hopes that she can encourage authenticity, imaginative thinking, and make powerful human connections. Comments are closed.
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