origami. by queenelf.

http://www.abctales.com/story/queenelf/origami

although you may hate me .. have you thought of trying it something like this, i hate the use of / to stress the poem... tis ugly.

Origami.
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So you think you have clever hands?

To cast in paper shapes images of
a moth or butterfly.
Create for yourself
something that is not me?
So you'll take up little pieces of me:
an image -
a thought of power?

Now make a flower:
a lotus
blossom opening in fragrant breeze,
or a dragon to devour all memories.
Maybe a gilded bird in a golden cage
or
a peacock proud with a tail of eyes?

To garnish, to decorate for show?

I'll hide admist the folds
where
paper hides a thousand lies
and
you will never find me there
nor

seek to display a sleight of hand.
We know you now
the trapped
and the slain.
The Geisha shakes
her fan and pearls of wisdom open
falling in prisms of reflected light.

Make of me a serpent uncoiled
to strike with venom at your throat
or a clawed tiger
about to leap
rather than open at your command.

The year of the monkey
has gone
and
the papers uncurl
burnt offerings
at the shrine of wisdom.

You are -
Nothing.
You cannot create or try to
emulate
something beyond your frail
understanding.

I am
we are
your discarded
Shapes
risen from the ashes of
your spent desires.

Truth is beyond you
art lies
in freedom.

© Lisa Fuller April 2006.