The Dragon Within

Today's session of Dorothy Randall Gray's workshop Writing the Rage, Healing the Soul was powerful. I had already taken the International Women Writers Guild's Free Write Friday on July 7 with Dorothy (read an excerpt of what I wrote for that workshop here), so I was ready to join her workshop today in its second week. Here's what flowed to the page today:

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(After "Dragons" by Sarah Kay)

She waits inside me, this stunning beauty,
harbinger of truth that will soon be
said out loud. I may speak in a whisper at first,
just as I was taught,
tail between my legs.
But as I find it, my silver, sapphire scales
begin to sparkle from beneath my skin,
shaming the façade
I've carried for so long.

I sing, and cry more loudly and sweetly
by the instant.
In the fervency of all I have to say,
my tail whips out and
levels your playing field,
scattering your kings and pawns alike.

I roar, and burn it to the ground.
Game. Over.

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