This piece provides great imagery of the emotions accompanying all the struggles of a bad day, luckily it ended with well-deserved praise.
A single tear
white-hot acid
announces self pity
abhorrent emotion
midday body crashed
I am foul-minded, drag-down
unreasonable…spiteful
shut my eyes against
a world of able-bodies
immune to the struggle
loathe this weakness
this intolerable disconnect –
body/mind detached from will
futility reality’s wall
could cry…will not cry
this day is not done.
Later, tasks accomplished –
I pushed through –
I sleep, awaken to nightfall
Soft pinks and blues
in a cottony sky
greet me – beauty
offering serenenity
and for a brief moment
a tinge of admiration surfaces
for the woman who survived
this day.
(Perception Softens first appeared here October 2018. I resubmit it here for my weekly challenge: soft. Image my own.)
I challenged myself (and you) this week to consider soft as contrast to the troublesome times. True to form, each entry brought a particular take on the prompt, and helped soften each…
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