The following original art and poetry was created by Heather Thompson, TheoArtistic Acquired Savant of Blue Phoenix Art.
As Published in AWE on Medium https://link.medium.com/BLBTcSkSxib
Blue Dragon – SHE
SHE
I began…
The room dissolved
into awkward
silence.
I dared to speak
one word
SHE.
Did I say something
surprising?
Yes.
I. Asked.
The. Question.
Out. Loud.
they squirmed
in visible discomfort.
many furrowed brows
attempting to grasp
the cognitive dissonance
perceptions of power
image – human – poem
Human
traumatic brain injury
disability advocacy
chronic illness
rare disease
lord help me
fatness!
SHE.
Human
moulded through
the fractal path of
descent
TheoArtist
some kind of Theologian
who does SHE think SHE is?
Still…
SHE
the DRAGON…
they stuttered
its power…
they muttered
we just assumed…
fumbling
tumbling
trying to find words
just as I struggle
to flatten colorful complexity
into linear language.
SHE.
I affirmed
with what became
a one word poem.
THE FEMININE
story told in layers
a mirror of hours passed
bubbled jewels dancing
with decades of
ineffable harmony
opaque windows into
crystalline moments
where she learned that
IT was not HER fault.
BLUE DRAGON
slowly emerged
from the hermit shell
SHE
contorted
squeezed
starved and
fractured herself into
to stay small
contained
acceptable for him
grandeur is for him
dragons are masculine.
BLUE DRAGON
FEMININE
Who would want a mighty SHE?
I do, SHE said.
Heather Thompson
Human
TheoArtistic Acquired Savant
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