wearing thinA Poem by RuseInexlife is filled with joy and pain as our earthly bodies wear out emotions cry outyou carry sternness on your facial demeanor stilted smiles, repressed gestures, awkward glances, concealment of your true pain and misery in the face of your children that they might not see i only know though i did not see your worn joints' stapled by arthritis pain yet you move; you do what you must for those you love squeezed tears' flow in secret revealed only to your steering column i only know though i did not see tears dripped off corners of your mascaraed eyes slow streaks like a snail's trail down your cheeks your body like a working machine wearing out squeezed tears' flow in secret i only know though i did not see after 60 years your organs inside your uterus removed after two children narrowly escaping dysplaysia of your cervix 'til its removal eight months post their birth i only know though i did not see your tears' fall your breasts' narrow escape from cancer's cells i only know though i did not see your tears' fall your skins' inner layers concealing growing tumors discovered insidiously by strange internal feelings within your being i only know though i did not see because when i called, through the years and today again, as you were speeding away to your obligations, responsibilities, your duties, through all the years though i did not see i could see your tears by the sound of your voice it cracked at times as i asked, it broke at times as i spoke, it paused during all those times when i said, "I'm concerned about your health; "I want you to come home; I will attend to your obligations today." © 2015 RuseInex |
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Added on December 29, 2015 Last Updated on December 29, 2015 AuthorRuseInexFresno, CAAboutI was born in obscurity Outside a small country town’s limits In a plank shack I kept a few memories That come into my head That i still carry around That i visit now and then The dust .. more..Writing
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