An Extract from This Month's Release: Broken Days (Another 365 Days of Poetry)

To celebrate this month's release of Another 365 Days of Poetry which released on the 4th. Links to the collection can be found at: https://books2read.com/u/bo2Y0a.

 

Broken Days

 

Started on April 8, 2018, and completed on April 30, 2019, this verse is about recovering from the unfairness of life, the wrong things that have happened, whose effects are immutable, and for which there will be no amends made. I didn’t know what this verse was about when I started it, and I couldn’t finish it twelve months ago. Today I was able to do that. It has taken me three years and three months to reach this point, and the journey is not yet over, but the pain is (mostly) less, and I am in a better place than I was. I have assigned this as the May 24 entry of Another 365 Days of Poetry.

 

Leave the broken days by the road.

You cannot walk with a doubled load.

You cannot fly, when your heart is bare

and scored and bloody with no way to care.

You cannot mend when the old wounds drag

and fester long, or when your spirits sag

beneath the weight of troubles old,

and bad deeds for which there is no cure told:

Injustice, unfairness, things that cannot be fixed,

or righted or mended, those injuries stick,

and all you can do is take one more step,

and leave them behind even though they affect

your days for far longer than they have any right.

Keep on walking, their grip loosens, if you don’t hold them tight.

Keep on walking, and live. Focus on what you want next.

Take courage, and hold those new dreams to your chest.

Take courage, and steps to make those new dreams come true,

and the old hurts and angers will slowly come loose.

Those old wounds will still catch on the cold depressed days

and the scars that they leave might never fade,

but the pain that you feel, will gradually ease,

if you focus on moving forward in spite of your fears.

 

 

Cover art is by Jake at JCaleb Design, and links to 366 Days of Poetry can be found on Books2Read at: https://books2read.com/u/bo2Y0a.