Write Us Out

• Artist: Sao Ann
• Description: Written a few years back at a writing workshop in an exercise where we had to pick our favorite line in a poem. The line I chose is the first one, and it originates from Eavan Boland's "What Language Did".
  
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• Date: 07/15/2008
• Tags: writeusout poetry saoann

Write us out of the poem. Make us human.
Give back the pieces of our soul taken
from us in the darkness. Take back

the scorching words of truth that
burn us from the inside out. This
is no way to be cleansed. You

were never meant to cleanse us.
Take our names from your mouth,
your mind, your heart, forget us in

all ways. Forget us so you don't soil
those precious lips that rarely deem
to speak to or of us. If you forget,

there's no worry of hurt and
betrayal from either side. If you forget,
we too may forget, move on, live again.

Write us out of the poem. Make us human.
Give back our weary hearts. Or, in my case,
give back the pieces of my shattered,

beaten, stepped on, broken heart.
Write me out of the poem that is you
so that I may, once and for all,

and with no regrets, be reborn
to live again. Or, so that I may die,
swiftly, to never know the pain of living without you.

Comments

[Stone Monkey King]

I likes it and yeah I read it before. what I cant quite put my finger on is the beat, but that could just be me....but still awesome work. wish I could write like that....

[otakuskater]

I think I can relate on how you wrote it. I also did a writing workshop from 5th grade to high school. Great rendition!