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Outer shell

Xenization (traveling as a stranger)

By Antoinette L BreyPublished 2 years ago 1 min read
Outer shell
Photo by Priscilla Du Preez 🇨🇦 on Unsplash

Alone

By nobody's standards

Carrying my own identify

Daring to be

Even slightly

Fearless

Girls are all the same

How some men feel

Idenity in the shape

Judgements of Body

Know me we scream

Look at the inner

Me

No one is there hips

Open my soul

Please value

Qualifications- just me

Real me

See

True grit

Under the belly

Value in a laugh

We gaze

Xenization

Yearning for eyes to

Zoom into my inner perfection

Stream of Consciousness

About the Creator

Antoinette L Brey

I am an elder in a time of freedom. I am now retired. All i want to do is have fun. Without a daily routine, my imagination is one of my only salvations. I am not planning on writing a book, it is just for my own pleasure

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  • Tiffany Gordon2 years ago

    glorious work!!!!

  • Heather Hubler2 years ago

    Ooo, this was really deep, Antoinette. I loved the choppy, stream of consciousness flow. Well done :)

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