Normalcy by Kathy Arnold and Joyce Kassanonkwas Sundheim
Normalcy
by Kathy Arnold
How strange it feels up here upon this wall
with all these rounds and circles
If words be told, I do not think this is the place for us
for you droop and I drip and we are not round at all
This is not a lasting place for us, a residence
with others forever pointing at our unkempt circlets
How strange it feels up here upon this wall
among these bodies of normal circularity
How are you and I to exist, for you droop
and I drip and we are not the same at all
I struggled with the indecision of our resting place
with eyes focused outward I was determined for us to leave
But now, with a glance beyond my own purpose of being
I am startled
for more are like us than are not
Why did I not notice this before that less
are rounds and much more are droops and drips
My gaze at first was clouded, so ignorant was I
of all that we were not and should be
I was so engrossed in your drooping
and my dripping and our lack of rotundity
That I believed rounds were normal
and droops and drips were just you and me
My eyes were so closed to the realities beyond my beliefs
that I did not see the drooping and drippings of life that were just like us
Happy and rewarded am I to see
that so many of us are really made up of the droops and drips of life
Normalcy
by Joyce Kassanonkwas Sundheim
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