Heels & Caged Minds by Pasithea Chan
You don’t have to wear my heels to know how it feels- to walk in my shoes and be unable to choose. Yet you choose to keep your distance and use- all that I see to maroon me in your desolate sea. I look into your eyes and feel them slice through my heart as you take me apart. I give you my back, but you keep track of all that I despise spicing them with lies. You wear your ambitions like a hat cutting through clouds as you tread my grounds. I collide into you trying to get to you only to realize I’ve lost you not to you. You’ve lost all expression as I have no intention- to change your opinion or seek your affirmation. I’ve made my decision; you are not my redemption. Thank you for your manipulation and oppression. I now follow my passion not your obsession. In your eyes, my kind wear heels to experience your passion as a privilege of being conquered. Today, I wear heels to remind myself how it feels to be happy tipping over your entitled kind. It is my right to live a free life with a free mind free of caged mentalities and cagey personalities. A Poetry Showcase with Pasithea Chan (September 2022) Clouded Vision by Lynn White I knew you were there, out here somewhere. I tried to find you but my vision clouded. With my head in the clouds I could only dream. Now I know I must let you go free. Free with the birds. Poetry Showcase from Lynn White
Fevers of the Mind 