ME AND SAL

POEM

Editor's Note:

At first reading this poem seems like the kind that would be written by an FP. But is wasn't and therein lies its uniqueness. It was written by Ruby, one of the female members of the staff of the Glorea La Vonne Charme School which for 5 years came to the DREAM gatherings on the Oregon Coast. Having met and come to understand so many of the girls over these years she was able to so clearly encompass their feelings that she wrote the following poem which was read at the final banquet at DREAM '76. That it should have come from the heart of an understanding woman makes it of particular interest. Just possibly it might ring a bell in the heart of some wives who do not seem able to relate to our femme selves.

There's a girl who lives inside of me Who keeps on begging to be free— When I was young she used to cry And in Confusion, I would sigh And say, "Be quiet, go away!"

Yet she cried day after day

Then as I grew, I somehow knew

That on some future day

That little girl would have her way.

So slowly I let her come outside.

One quick shy look, then she'd run and hide

inside of me, and safe again,

she begged to be set free again.

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