Title: Who You Want Me to Be?

Gender: Female

Location: Fort Collins, Colorado

Demon or bird! (said the boy's soul)

Is it indeed toward your mate you sing? Or is it really to me?

For I, that was a child, my tongues use sleeping, now I have

     heard you,

Now in a moment I know what I am for, I awake,

And already a thousand singers, a thousand songs, clearer,

     louder and more sorrowful than yours,

A thousand warbling echoes have stated to life within me, never

     to die.

                                         -from “Leaves of Grass” by Whitman






 

I died for Beauty-but was scarce

Adjusted in the Tomb

When One who died for Truth, was lain

In an adjoining Room-

He questioned softly “Why I failed”?

“For Beauty”, I replied-

“And I-for Truth-Themself are One-

We Brethren, are”, He said-

And so, as Kinsmen, met a Night-

We talked between the Rooms-

Until the Moss had reached our lips-

And covered up-our names-

                             -Dickinson

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