Venetia Ghozlan

PARIAH

trapped in a white sterility
that denies my humanity
and dignity
I have been named pariah
ousted from human contact
I cry endemic tears
and shed contagion

Venetia Ghozlan is a disabled, 52 year old of mixed cultural heritage, an atheist, humanist...she works for SSA (her daytime grunt earn the gruel gig) and says, "I have written since I could breathe...or at least think, cognitively. I am inspired by the whispers in the wind, the screams contained in the thunder and the silence of mutes..."