PAD Day 21. What I am /What I am not Poem 3. I am not that girl

I am not that girl

standing on strong

tanned tight thighs

bandana on my head

toned arms raised -

reaching out a flower

to place in a gun-barrel

and melt war, hatred,

pestilence and hunger

I am not that girl and

yet, still somewhere

shimmering in some

alternate universe of

parallel possibility

I am

still

that

girl