As she stood on the shore
Feeling the wind whip the waves
An angry frenzy forming white caps
On the lake - mimicking
Making a mockery
Of the turmoil in her soul
The perception of being
Quarantined - intensified
Confined to an inclement
Compartment, no bigger than
Necessary to contain
Her essence - her autocracy
Secluded - desperate
In her struggle to break through
Debilitating isolation
She cried out for compassion
For freedom from exclusion
Forced on her by foreign
Exigencies, by external
Limitations - constraints
Of increasingly diminishing
Pockets of time and seeming
Disinterest in her well being
By her captor – he who had
Purported to love her
© Alice Vedral Rivera - 2005
Alice Vedral Rivera
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