The Woman I Am by Glen Allen
I just came across this in an old file of poems I had. I don’t really remember it, so it was cool to read it, as if for the first time.
The Woman I Am
By Glen Allen
The woman I am
Hides deep in me
Beneath the woman
I seem to be.
She hides away
From the stranger’s eye—
She is not known
To the passers-by.
She goes her way,
The woman I seem,
But the woman I am
Withdraws to the dream!
The woman I seem
Goes carelessly—
When love goes by
Does not seem to see.
But the woman I am
Knows sudden fear…
And hides more deeply
When love draws near!
For love might look closely
Perhaps… and see
Her beneath the woman
I seem to be!
Glen Allen was the pseudonym with which my grandmother signed her early works, later using her own name Roselle Mercier Montgomery. She authored two published collections of her poems, “Ulysses Returns and Other Poems, 1925 ” and “Many Devices, 1929″, both of which can be found in used book stores.
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Thank you for sharing. What a beautiful poem. What year was it written? In the 1920’s sometime? It’s amazing that it has so much meaning today in 2009. She must have been some incredible grandmother.