Unbound: A Collection of Poetry

By RD Marie

Poetry written throughout the many years of my adolescence and up into adulthood. Each story told through poetry is in relation to what was happening in my life at the time of its birth. May these words evoke something in you, as they have for me, in more way than one.

• Language: English
• Publisher: RD Marie
• Release date: Oct 5, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005690090

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UNBOUND

The Mirror

I held the mirror like my mother once showed me

Gingerly

Openly

And thoughtful

It reflected back where I could never stand

On the ceiling

Where I could never wander

Upside-down

There the dazzling glass showed my chin from the bottom

I could see up my nose

See through my bottom lids, as lucent green

And from there I could creep like a spider amidst the stars 

I sauntered around the ceiling fan

Laid upon the rough surface

Felt the upper limits

Where I could never reach

I was a child

And my imagination said I could walk where I wanted to walk

Hold onto the fan and swing with it

And skip upturned on the ceiling

My hair would slowly fall upward

For I was not right side up

And it felt like it was floating off my head

Though it only hung down

The mirror would become my sight 

My ears

My touch

Me

I no longer strolled upright

For down was up

And up was down

And I lived inside the echoed world 

Until my mother reminded me that I