Let Me Lie

Let me lie in my vomit

Don’t wash my feathers with your tears

They’re piercing me like blunt nails

puncturing Jesus on the cross

My wings hang heavy on the brink of my failures

Their weight breaks my backbone

Regrets taste like dust and mold in my mouth

I’ve never felt so hollow wearing my holiness

 

Let me lie in the swamp of my sorrows

I don’t care that I’m a miracle about to happen

I don’t care that I’ll be reborn again

like a Phoenix bird

Who remembers its bewitching song anyway?

I’m not ready to burn and rebuild my nest yet

Let me loop my loneliness around my neck

soft and warm like an ermine fur in the winter

 

They say you never die from a snake’s bite

It’s the venom that kills you

pouring through your flesh

long after the snake sneaked away

Let me surrender to its sweet poison prickling my veins

Tomorrow I promise I’ll spread my wings and fly

But for now I’m begging you

Let me lie in my vomit.

 

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Adriana Morgan completed a Ph.D. in French Literature at the University of Letters in Nantes, France. She is fluent in six languages and worked as a translator and terminologist at the European Commission in Luxembourg and the United Nations in New York. She taught French at the University of Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, India, the French Alliance and the Universities of Valparaiso and Vina del Mar, Chile. She currently works as a multi-dimensional artist: painter, poet, and children's picture books writer and illustrator. She's been born in Bucharest, Romania, currently living in nice, France. Adriana is the first prize winner of the Midnight Mozaic Fiction (Medium, 2019), one of the selected winners of the Canadian poetry contest—Quebec and the Francophony, and second prize winner of the Daniil Pashkoff International Poetry Contest, 2018, Germany. Adriana Morgan's artworks and literary works have been published or are forthcoming in 'Beyond Words Literary Magazine', 'Infinity Room,' 'Spillwords', and 'Ullalume Lighthouse' among others.

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