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

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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 th...