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Clothes From My Closet
Feb 25, 2025
They were never there
no dresses or skirts
shirts, not blouses
shoes too small
my identity
in the dark
clothes hidden from ridicule
kept in a paper sack
underneath my bed
never washed
worn in the closet
my painful secret
My identity
kept in that closet
away from my dreams
not the same person
when the door was closed,
to the closets darkness
couldn’t come out,
I was afraid
to be laughed at
to be hurt
to be her.
Patsy Starke 2/25/2025,
A dark closet is a horrible place to be.
