Silent WARFARE

This poetry collection is the story about a heroine's journey. The road back to identity. Separation, initiation and return to self. The sinister price we pay for becoming estranged with our own inner world. It is a reflection on the urgency for reconciliation with self, for the entrapment does not have to be eternal. In these pages, you will find the full spectrum of emotions that the human body and mind are capable of experiencing ...passion, rhapsody, euphoria, rage, courage, hope, fury and an awestruck revelation...THAT OUR VISIBILITY IS NOT NEGOTIABLE.Using the Socratic method in her poetry to question the world around us and thereby curating a more intentional life, Mary walks readers through self-reflective questions: What happens when people create a world we did not want when they penetrate our minds & hearts? What if we have achieved everything we set out to do but it has come at great sacrifice to our souls? What if we freed ourselves but didn t realize how far we could truly take that freedom? Fearless DimensionsHer heart dances inside of mineThe truth slips off her tongue fearlesslyShe lives deliberately in her own dimensionAnd if I m lucky enough, she might look in my directionUnder Siege HANDS UP PUT YOUR WEAPONS DOWN They Said.My body was under siege,But even worse My brain was under social surrender My Scheming SaviorMy Savior told me to get an educationBut all he really wanted was an extravagant, wingless birdMy Savior told me I could walk on my ownBut then he gently kicked a wheelchair to my kneesMy Savior told me to open my big brown eyesBut then he delicately blindfolded meWith his soft, nimble fingersHe reached in and took my soulBecause clearly my soul was for the taking. Not YoursMy body is not your shipto anchor and sail at your leisure.My mind is not your possessionto buy and sell.My soul is not your toyto fiddle with and break. Foreign CountryInteracting with youfeels like being a foreigner in my own country. CoronationI crowned myselfAnd hosted my own opulent coronation.The most important people were invited Me,Me, &Me