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What to Write About

Things to write about.
How many nightmares
that left you in ashes.
How many times
you have fallen in love
and stood in the pool of your blood.
How many chairs and tables
you made for your house,
or did not,
and left an empty kitchen with
no place to sit or dine.
The pictures you painted
and burned,
because you would not accept them.

The time you almost drowned
and were brought to the air
by dolphins.
The one hundred perfect days
you had but refuse to think about,
while you dwell on one hour of agony
long ago.
These are starters,
what things have done to you,
the weights you have lifted
and paid for
with pieces of your soul,
and made the person
inside your skin
that keeps you company.

Published inIndex of all Poems