Sarah loved flowers like stars in the night sky

Sarah loved Sahr loved Sarai

loved flowers

many in the night sky

many on the ground........

beautiful flowers

the others said there was

something wrong with Sarah

for she could sit for the longest time

just thinking of flowers

and in the garden

she dreamed sitting amongst

she already knew that she knew

how to get up and play

how to walk down the streets for exercise

how to run skip jump and sing

well said someone

you must go to school soon

and there you will learn what you want to be

and they will help you concentrate your energies

into something you can be

i already am something said Sarah wisely

i am a person who

wants to fix the world

no said someone and everyone else

they asked

there are no jobs like that

you will have to do as you

are told

so did everyone else

so Sarah went back to sitting amongst the flowers

hoping she could change things....

everybody knew how to say no

but they didn't know how to hear it

from Sarah

oneday some people came by

and said we don't want you

thinking of flowers

anymore

because we don't have one like you

and we all have to be the same

all of ours think of things

the way the world is

so you will too

we told you this a long

time ago but you were very little

we expect you to remember now

you are almost to school age

and you will remember now

or you will wish you had.....

The World Enslaved......

Sarah cried inside

she couldn't even remember the faces

or what they had said after they left

all she could remember was that she couldn't

remember even who she was

because she wasn't supposed to remember

something she couldn't find

or something like that

she found herself crawling on the floor

she was back at babyhood

a voice said

it was after whatshisname and their group

of recommenders left......

it was ahwile before Sarah

remembered her name

they kept calling her something else

but she made sure to remind them

eventually after

she found her name again

that she was Sarah

they didn't like

the other names

of Sahr and Sarai and the stars of heaven

finally after a long time she remembered the flowers

and wondered why she had forgotten

in her baby brain

she did not have room

to remember the sophisticated

threat of adults

and so on and on the story went for years

of threats until she remembered

it all together at once

and was able to hide it

until it was gone

by its own death of age

or illness

or misfortune

and all the time

held in secret

the flowers and the stars

and her dreaming names

of herself

and her real names

and who she really was

that the world

disposed of

in its foolishness

and unintelligent symmetry........

Sarah the wise

Sarah the Maha

Sarah of the Flowers

Sarah of the answers....of the universe....

Sarah of the knowing.....

Sssssssssssssshhhhhhh of the Air

Sahhhhhhhhhhh of the Wind

Suhhhhhhhhhhhof the Flows of Heaven

Ssssssssssssssof the Ocean's Breath........

at four she felt these things

but mostly she knew

the evil of mankind

and stagnant devils.........

you're our slave

said someone coming by

to see her at four years old

the worlden slaved

said Sarah slowly

what! said the voice

her eyes so blurry

she could not see

Sarah never knew who it was....

slaved the worlden me said Sarah

just say you're my slave

said the voice

slaved was all they could get....

within ...a secret

not even Sarah knew

you will see

said real name

the world enslaved

in particular...you....

but even Sarah did not hear....

only the leaves on the tree near the house

and the flowers she still loved

and the roots of the trees

spread across the earth

and told everything

...and heard the sky

said Sarah in her sleep...

ssshhh said the Sahr part

go to sleep said

a shushing voice from within

sky will tell everything...

Sarah sighed and fell deeper asleep ...

and deeper asleep......

(to be cont'd)