TITLE: SUNSET RIDGE

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SIZE: 23" X 23"

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SUNSET RIDGE

I always felt the houses

up on sunset ridge

were not the sort of places

that were meant

for the likes of me.

They had the view

they had the height

they looked down on the rest

they even caught

the sunsets from the crest.

I felt I knew my place

and it wasn't up above

hob-knobbing with the richer folk

that lived a better richer life

up on sunset ridge.

One day I was watching

the sunset from below

and I realised that I could see

the sunset's light

with an even better glow

than those above

who were blinded

by the intensity of light

and then I saw that all along

that where I was, was right.

I'd told myself

that they were more than me

my own perception made me think

that sunset ridge

was a better place to be.

Now I know there is no us,

or them, up on high,

there's only what we tell ourselves

that we deserve

because of how we feel inside.

©Roisin Duffy