I want to be heartless
Gut the feelings that rip my insides
Brush it all off
Walk away like I never cared
I want to be straight-faced
Void of any emotion at all
Take these strings from my heart
Tangle them around objects
that don’t mean anything
Hold them as though they do
Take the softness from my eyes
Let them be stones
Throw them until I am hardened
Kick the pieces they split into
like the glass from the mirror,
like the smoke it all is anyway
Cover my mouth a blank surface
that only knows the color of honesty
Show me a truth
that doesn’t break itself
into a lie that exists forever
Spin my spine
like metal from the crash
that never unwinds me
from my twisting
Straighten my path
until it’s crystal clear enough
to never get lost
in the outdated map
that takes me nowhere
Give me a destination
to straightforward
Show me the way
to happiness
that never changes its mind
Settle me somewhere
in the place
where the weather doesn’t matter,
but happiness always does.
-Stephanie Bennett-Henry
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Stephanie Bennett-Henry 
“to never get lost
in the outdated map
that takes me nowhere”
Getting lost is such maps is so damned easy. I would that we could shred them like the yellowing statements from long closed bank accounts.
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Stephanie Bennett-Henry – to be settled – what an idea
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