Tagged: pain
when we cross paths, the
when we cross paths, the
recognition will not be
instantaneous –
more felt, less remembrance, waiting
for the joy or pain to subside
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pain stretches across
pain stretches across
all distances – we pretend
we can shake it off
while rounding this marker or
that marker – it ain’t that easy
.
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in the silhouette
in the silhouette
of you – joy, sorrow, madness
unraveled, calm, pain –
no indication except
the capacity to contain
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finally, spring is
finally, spring is
peeking over the hedges, and
you have decided
to give up, let go, peel away
from this corporal suffering
.
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we are attempting
we are attempting
to speak with a single voice – no
group has ever built
unity underneath an
invisibility cloak
.
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no one belongs to
no one belongs to
no one else – we recognize
this in loss, pain, in
separation two days before
christmas in a pandemic
.
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it has always been
it has always been
true that we are one stumble
away from real pain,
one ankle twist from dependence,
one phone call from helplessness
.
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after so many
after so many
layers, numbness will settle
in, a longed for pain
.
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: layers
the impermanence
the impermanence
of things pains me – this afternoon,
finding a crack in
grandma’s ring and wondering
how it got there, how to rewind
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** in the absence of The Daily Post from WordPress, here’s your daily prompt: rewind
perhaps when we add
perhaps when we add
up all of our privileges,
it makes sense that we
can spend an afternoon, aching
with an indefinable pain
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