Raw

We were opposites then,
I was olde world
and you were new—
inverted paradigm
freshly enslaved.

It is all stolen
Time
Light
Breath
Chance.

It is all quick
in this black night
of rain slicked
pavement with
angles incongruent
and mouths indifferent.

Aleathia Drehmer 2010

Published by Prathamata (India), Print, 2010