painful mornings

it really isn't pretty, it's not even poetry, it's just me coping.

if I could
frame
it
neatly

pack it
tight
like a
poem

into
an
organized
quatrain.

make this
pain
go
away

box it
uptight,
contain
it ...

wait,
that isn't
how I write
                     anyway.

if only you were a stubbed toe.
and a series of swears
would take away your bite.

to write is to hurt
to not write is to let you win.

if I could turn back time,
I would go run into him.

Perfect
Agony
Inside
Nerves

Pills
Acetominophen
Ibuprophen
Naproxen

Points
Again
Into
Numb

Author's Note

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

better to hurt than to not write...and try hard not to stub the toe...and we can never make the pain go totally away...we can only numb it for a period of time.
i really like all these shorts that you do.

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks very much. No, the pain doesn't go away.

[Lydia Shutter]

If only indeed.....unfortunately heartache is a much more difficult pain to rid oneself of than the pain of a stubbed toe. I hope writing is a bit of a catharsis for you. You express emotions so well. Lydi**

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks. The pain, in this case, is literal, which bleeds through into emotions, clearly, the two are inextricably linked.