Tag: misery
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Who Needs To Be Revived
It is spring that revives, even as the world begins to claw its way out from under the suffocating blanket of so many things better left unsaid why in fact don’t we all just stay in the cold in the numb a little longer and maybe that will let us go to sleep for good.…
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1000 words: Unspoken
Some days were harder than others. She woke at first light, sometimes to find he’d already been awake long enough to set fire to the towels in the bathroom, and instead of alerting her, he dropped them in the tub and turned on the shower, then went to burn eggs in the kitchen, or try…
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Every Time, For Him
It was easy to get caught up in the minutiae, easy to think of what she did, day to day, as the important stuff, when in fact it was the overarching pattern she’d wanted to accomplish. She didn’t do it for herself. She didn’t do it for anyone that might end up saved or grateful.…
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There/Not There
slipping down reaching clawing wet hands bloody hands reaching grasping in the slick slip mud slide down the pitch right to the edge right to the edge hang on hang on hang on hold on too late falling done falling done Tags: black dog, depression, despair, hate, mental illness, misery, motherland, poem, poems, poetry, sadness,…
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Five Ways Of Looking
I. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder at the forks in the road. Paths not taken. Discoveries not made. How would they have turned out? No different than anyone else looking back on their lives, but I feel infinitely ill-prepared to face my own demons. II. I keep you at my back, your sword at…