Hanging fire
poem by audre lorde
i am fourteen
and my skin has betrayed me the boy i cannot live without still sucks his thumb
in secret
how come my knees are always so ashy
what ifi die
before morning
and momma's in the bedroom with the door closed.
i have to learn how to dance in time for the next party my room is too small for me
suppose i die before graduation they will sing sad melodies
but finally
tell the truth about me
there is nothing i want to do 20 and too much
that has to be done
and momma's in the bedroom with the door closed.
nobody even stops to think 25 about my side of it
i should have been on math team my marks were better than his why do i have to be
the one
wearing braces
i have nothing to wear tomorrow will i live long enough
to grow up
and momma's in the bedroom
what perspective is the speaker sharing with the reader?

In this text, the author is sharing the perspective of a fourteen year old girl. We learn about the way in which her mind operates, and the many things that worry her, such as death, identity, family, friends and love. Alternatively, we can also say that the perspective that the author is sharing is a first-person perspective, as the author talks about herself, and her own thoughts.

imparadis't in one anothers arms  

the happier eden, shall enjoy their fill  

of bliss on bliss, while i to hell am thrust,  

where neither joy nor love, but fierce desire,  

among our other torments not the least,  

still unfulfill'd with pain of longing pines;  

yet let me not forget what i have gain'd  

from their own mouths; all is not theirs it seems:  

one fatal tree there stands of knowledge call'd,  

forbidden them to taste: knowledge forbidd'n?  

suspicious, reasonless. why should their lord  

envie them that? can it be sin to know,

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