Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site amd.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!lsuc!pesnta!amd!karen From: karen@amd.UUCP (Karen Bain) Newsgroups: net.poems Subject: For Valerie Message-ID: <1066@amd.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Mar-85 12:48:55 EST Article-I.D.: amd.1066 Posted: Mon Mar 11 12:48:55 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Mar-85 15:39:07 EST Distribution: net Organization: AMD Applications, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 34 *** REPLACE THIS LINE WITH YOUR MESSAGE *** She carries it with her Like a heavy ball and chain. They won't let her put it down. So she puts on a mask- The smiles of slow death, She won't let them know. Every night, alone In the dark, She burries her face in a pillow of tears. By morning she is empty Just to be filled throughout the day With threatening tears welling up inside her. Damning herself, and cursing all others. One empty day, She'll drop that ball and chain, And slowly unmask herself. She finally will lay her head on a dry pillow. And we will be empty. And throughout the days We will be filled with her unseen tears. And every night, alone In the dark, We will bury our faces In her pillow of drenched confusion. -Karen Bain 3/80