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Rated: 18+ · Book · Spiritual · #1149750
10k views, 2x BestPoetryCollection. A nothing from nowhere cast words to a world wide wind
#967754 added November 13, 2019 at 7:09pm
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Camden (My Owner)
Camden

What's in a name?
You'd think by any other name she
Would smell as sweet

Burst into my world
Like an unplanned thing
Because I had no name for her
Until I saw
Tender, frightened
So uninlove with the light
This trembling creature
         Revealed unto me
Madeline Margaret

I was her owner
Until we mutually agreed
While playing horsey
She held my fate
In her reigns
Some unmarked day
On the living room rug
Where chafed knees began to frail.

She was my owner
Rebuffing any thought
How she could steady herself
Quell angst against a world
Much more punitive than a father
Now yielding to mother
Who one day delivered
There's been a change:

No, she's not Madeline Margaret
Anymore
But some pierced, hooded creature
Trolling about
         Still my plaything, buried
Deep within that trembling
Tender-calling, bleeding heart
Just 'Camden' now
I was not to be introduced

The story will have an ending
One day
But who will I see
Staring across a restaurant scene
At me
With love? The same contempt?
For the man who released trills
From a choked throat, when
She became my owner



Every time we say goodbye you're frozen in my mind as the child that you never will be, you never will be again.
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Maddie's October, 2006 portrait. ** Image ID #1155335 Unavailable ** ** Image ID #1289222 Unavailable ** ** Image ID #1295877 Unavailable **

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