You don't have to love me.
Varvara D.

The point was to ask for pity,
To keep sorrow out of the loop.
It was difficult to keep dates in her head
Literature joined the troupe and took to the road.
She became the wanderer from street to homes,
From pubs to moors,
A church to a stage, one and the same:
Strayed into the open and found the floor.
Fatigued from her travel to attempt a look up,
She offered a week to attend to her hands.
Resting her feet--let them sink where they will--
Confiding your secrets to the rock of the land.
She gathered strength to observe her surroundings:
The hundreds of stilts receiving her scorn.
Either blessing or defiling the ground they covered,
Too soon was she overwhelmed.
Sleep, the solution: overlooked
Drug, hit her, filled every vein
Refused her mind's protests yet hither decided it
Needed a lull, a rhyme to prevent the lucid wake
"My legs do the walking, my hands do the talking,"
She sang to herself as the words swelled in time.
They quickly lost meaning,
So all was sublime.
In the midst of her chant
Spectators gathered.
Some were fooled, and thought that they knew,
In the absurd nature of passers gone by.
One witness stayed and circled, and circled.
Stared down the others, created a whirlpool
The circle grew wider, and wider
Daylight flooded unwilling through ridicule.
legs do no walking, her hands, no talking”
Instructed he them, to pay no regard.
lives are too dear to you, do remember--
Your lives are too dear to waste time on a scar"
At this spotlight's fading she commenced a shiver:
Looked up from herself without change in her face,
Felt her enticing slumber deliver,
Nothing, no single trace.
But the chatter of the shiver, music in its glittery chill;
Igniting sparks slow just to mark his embrace.
Clouds gather like Hollywood's will,
Her journey--a summary, of his God's gift of brace.
Her savior's halo fading fast,
Fear fermented in her heart.
She looked to her hands once more,
Said “My hands do nothing"

The boy walked away, not sure what he'd done
The girl sat on history; eyes healed the Dead Sea.