SALLY TOLD ME

Sally told me,
as mom and dad
social worker,
the school shrink
chaplain
reminded her,
"We cannot get
inside her head
so in other words
think,
do not drink
or make your own bed
or you'll wind up in the clink",
this does happen,
received a call
from a locked unit
on this writer and poet
who was a fighter
for others human rights
to live and perhaps
in her collapse ,to live,
she was taken away
one day in June
without her fellow
she as an actor Desdemona
in a graduation play
who loved an Othello,
now made into a loner
in her tiny room
could not cut her nails,
others worry
if all should fail
she could forgive herself
at least,
and now after therapy
would be released.