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A Minotaur Life

Under the weight of a free and wild world That I could run away to. But that day could never come sooner.

A Minotaur Life is a poem written by Dana Trick and shared with The Ugly Writers with the theme Recovery for the month of March.

 

A Minotaur Life

 

Myself,

My soul, my person,

Are of two worlds—

Harmony and chaos,

Humanity and monsters,

Love and hate.

Simultaneously

Accepted and rejected,

Worshipped and shamed,

Displayed and hidden

By everyone and no one,

I go on living, breathing, wandering

Within these labyrinth walls.

My slumber is spent dreaming

Of these walls someday falling

Under the weight of a free and wild world

That I could run away to.

But that day could never come sooner.

Even then,

Though the truth mocks me constantly,

I continue living for something better.

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Dana Trick

First generation Mexican-Canadian-American and occasional lover of skulls and books, Dana Trick lives in Southern California where it is clearly foolish to wear black any day but she does it anyway. When she isn’t being a historian, Dana Trick spends her days writing emotional poems and weird stories, and drawing comic strips that she thinks are hilarious. She enjoys learning about the history and the various mythologies of Latin America and Asia, but her interest is mainly on the history of autism, which she has. Her work has been published on Art of Autism, the Lothlorien Poetry Journal, DeviantART, and The Ugly Writers. She wishes the reader a nice day.

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