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The Man Who Raised Me

from Magali to the Sea by Rick Waines

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The man who raised me used his hands. He was a builder and a castle for me he did build. A monument of love to me, built with stone and chisel, while I grew up like a thistle.
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Thorns grown by streetlight blooming at night. Cut down to size by men I recognize by the look in their eyes.
The woman who raised me used her hands. Her husband’s handmaid, she taught me how to hold my tongue, while parts of me were chipped away, ’til I bore resemblance little former semblance.
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This pool of light I'm drowning in choked with lifeguards’ warnings.
While men in lifeboats circle me offering assistance, needy and insistent.
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This is a gross exaggeration adopted child's drug-addled imagination.
We've come to treat her as our own and we've come to take her home, her loving home, she's coming home.
Raise the drawbridge, fill the moat. Pulled in from the streetlights, tucked in bed with sheets pulled tight. Abated here within the fold, familiar secrets clutter up this empty home.
Thorns lit by streetlight grown here by night light.
Skin is razed, hands raised, light this stone house ablaze.
The man who raised me used his hands.

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from Magali to the Sea, released November 1, 2011

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