A Poem a Day: a Series – Day 97

Day 97: “Severance”


What if you didn’t feel loss

Well you did

But it was the other you


Severance


And when that loss came up

You’d be a different you

One that holds all of that pain


I wonder how heavy that’d be

And would the memories go too?

The good, happy ones?


What would it be like to sever the grief

Would it be like they never existed at all?

Would it be unfair to yourself?

Your other self

To give them the loss

Or would they be better off

More resilient

Stronger


What would that make you? Without the grief?

Would you even be you at all?

A Poem a Day: a Series – Day 95

Day 95: “Eruption”


Just one day

Can make everything fall apart


One ill-made decision

One misrepresentation

One callous remark

One violent gesture


Can make it all come crumbling down


When you get up from the rubble

Dust yourself off

You see the signs


They were there before

But you see them now


It didn’t just all blow up one day

It was a slow, lava-oozing rupturing


Just an upset stomach

That became an infected mess of pain


A full-blown eruption

A big eye-opener


Emergency surgery

You have to cut out the poison

To live


That kind of gives me comfort

That things don’t just blow up out of nowhere


But it does make me question my judgment

A Poem a Day: a Series – Day 62

Day 62: “Canker Sore”


I have a canker sore

A huge one

In the back of my mouth

Right side


It hurts


I showed my boyfriend

Opened wide and shined a flashlight

He said he didn’t even need the light

It’s that big


I get them when I’m stressed

Makes sense why I have one now


I need a break

A breather


Deep breaths

In

Out

In

Out


Maybe a couple days off will help


A day in bed

Staring at my phone

Is bound to do the trick


A nice long shower

Self care


There

The pain will magically go away