Damage Ii

"To study psychological trauma is to come face to face both with human vulnerability in the natural world and with the capacity for evil in human nature”— Judith Herman. I once knew a girl resolute With countless goals in pursuit Along came a knight To dismantle her fright And all of her goals to Boot... Golden girls in gilded towers Dream by night In endless flowers Beds they've made And now to sleep And in the day to just to keep They cower and weep feign they're meek Hemmed in by formless magic Her nights tower height and breadth tragic Dreams nightmares stay to glower Picked her pocket and her power Girds her in safely-- fragile female woe Holds her captive Svengali's secret male mojo Female cunning and intuit fail And all that's left are thick walls To wail Up on.