Flying from the Masquerade Ball

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    Flying from the Masquerade Ball

    I live in a world full of people
    At a masquerade ball
    Pretending to be something
    Someone
    They’re not
    But you
    You lifted the mask
    From my weary face
    Looked deep into my eyes
    Saw my beautiful soul
    Down there
    And brought it up
    To the surface
    For me to see
    You bring out
    The best in me
    And make me the girl
    I’ve always wanted to be
    I turn around
    Your tender hands explore my back
    Find my zipper and pull it down
    I step out of society’s frilly ball gown
    And standing there
    Nearly naked
    I am suddenly clothed
    By the warm blanket
    Of your unexpected love
    And from under the blanket
    I feel new growth
    I scream your name
    As I feel its blissful pain
    Suddenly I have a wing
    A single wing
    That matches yours
    You grab me in a tight embrace
    As I fly away
    To my own personal paradise
    In the arms of the man I hold
    And who hold me tight
    As we sail away
    Into the light

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    TomekaRocquelle commented on Flying from the Masquerade Ball

    06-10-2009

    It is a blessing to feel and shed the numbness, and you have cleverly conveyed that beautifulness in your poem. I really like it, and swear by it. For I have a poem similar but really short and simple. You went into specifics and deeper dimensions and I appreciate that.

    Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.

    Aristotle (384 BC-322 BC) Greek philosopher.

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