I Buried Her
Copyright Lauri Ann Lumby
Yesterday I buried
the part of me that
was made to feel shame.
A shame that was never my own –
but the projection of another’s
unacknowledged insecurity,
Failure
and
Self-loathing.
Understanding it was
never anything I had done
or failed to do:
I buried her.
Placing her head-down
in a grave six-feet deep.
I lay a single rose
atop her grave,
shook the dirt off my hands,
turned and
silently
walked away.
