GLASS…………noun 1 a hard, brittle, usually transparent or translucent substance made by fusing sand with soda and lime. 2 a drinking container made of glass. 3 a mirror. 4 a lens or optical instrument, in particular a monocle or a magnifying lens.
I live in a glass house
No sides
No fences
No walls
No smoke
No fire
No followers
No leaders
No judge
No jury
No Utopia
I live in a glass house
It is mirrored glass
It is tinted glass
It is transparent
Some of it is magnified
Some of it is open
Some of the glass is broken
Some of it lies shattered on the floor
This house is a window
This house has a door
Sometimes I do not understand what I see
Sometimes I cannot understand what others see
Sometimes I am not home
Sometimes I visit other glass houses
This house is imperfect
This house reflects its owner
Its owner is an ordinary woman
I am flawed in many ways
Sometimes I am honest
Sometimes I am self serving
Sometimes I am wise
Sometimes I am foolish
Sometimes I am fearless
Sometimes I am everything at once
Sometimes I wish I did not live in a glass house
My house is filled with words
My house is filled with images
Sometimes people visit
Sometimes they leave words and images here
I live in a glass house
Where words and images
Create joy, pain, truth and confusion.
Enlightenment, anger, and understanding
Live together in this house.
I live in a glass house
Sometimes I watch and listen
Sometimes I speak and laugh
Sometimes I rant and rave
Sometimes I reach out
Sometimes I run away
Sometimes I love
Sometimes I want to touch you
Sometimes my heart breaks
Sometimes my soul soars
This house is located in a neighborhood
In a country
In a world
In the middle of other glass houses
In a stream of souls
I live in a glass house
Sometimes it gets dark in here
Sometimes the sunlight hits the glass just right
And there is a rainbow
And this house becomes a home
