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INSIDE OUTSIDE & MY SESTINA PARTS I AND II
by Sofia Kerrigan


'Inside Outside" is inspired by Daryl Chinn's "Inside Out" 

​INSIDE OUTSIDE


Inside I'm hurt
Outside I'm fine
Inside I wish to leave
Outside I must stay
Inside it is warm and colorful
Outside it is dark and raining
Inside I'm tired
Outside I'm energetic
Inside I work
Outside I play
Inside it's quiet
Outside it's loud
When I'm inside I wish to be out
When I'm inside I wish to be in
Outside things don't go my way
Onside I don't mind
Inside I'm sick
Outside I"m fine
Inside I don't want to go
Outside I do
Inside I want people to understand
Outside I understand them
Inside I am wanting everyone to know
Outside I want no one to know
Inside I have nightmares
Outside I dream
I wish my inside could be outside
​It will never work that way


This two-part sestina is dedicated to people who lost their children

MY SESTINA PART I

Family is a group of people held together by love
Each with a hopeful dream
No hate

But sometimes tears
They don't have a fear
Especially while together

They miss each other when they're not together
They miss the love
They fear
They are not going to dream
There is more tears
They start to hate

It dies again because they are back again, there is no hate
Together
They cry 1,000 happy tears
They can love
They can dream
Again no fear


MY SESTINA PART II

Until the child leaves dreading fear
But no hate
A dream
For the child to come back, so they're together
The child still held by love
Many tears

Still to come there is many tears
Still fear
The child will not return not love
Hate
Coming at the poem who stopped being together
No dreams

Will help dreams
Stop tears
The child is gone not together
No fear
Just the hate
But still some love

They dream and fear
They cry tears and hate
​But together they find love




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