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For Ours Was The Kingdom

Lauren Phillips-Freeman

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I often find my way back there, sleep-drawn,
the idyllic kingdom of the pink attic bedroom,
presided over by two teenage girls,
different in fewer ways than they thought.

Our kingdom was the envy of all who saw it,
a self-contained haven with everything we needed,
well-protected, for few were those who dared scale
the vertiginous heights of…

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Lauren Phillips-Freeman

Lauren Phillips-Freeman is a language teacher and writer with a love of words in all their forms. She uses writing to help her process her own tangled emotions.