Hierarchy of Depiction

Unseen eyes
unseeing
peak-a-boo
with
imposed representation

blinded by depictions
portrayed without
a voice

left
obscured by
uneven
authorship

narrator
confines &
defines
character’s
worldview

unprinted
voices

stereotyped

blind
to intrinsic worth
reimagining self
as depicted by
power

Hierarchy of Depiction

characters
flounder in a world of
imposed words
penned
by the other,

but
now
free voices penetrate
the monolithic
hierarchy of depiction.