The fate of pain
My poetry submission to the prompt "what is the fate of pain?" for @poems_fortheendoftheworld | poetry | seedling | curious |
A friend started an online writing group @poems_fortheendoftheworld with a new poetry prompt each week. I decided to take part. You can read all submissions for Volume 1 at this doc.
Here's my submission for week one:
The fate of pain
sometimes the pain
comes in
showers
lukewarm and
covering
my skin.
lately, mist.
barely there, but
everywhere.
rain drops too.
outside I see them
through windows
fogged with my
shallow breath, lips
parted.
I catch them
sometimes in
ball jars,
with labels so
I know where
to place them
on shelves
indexed by
subject.
family. earth.
that day at the park.
other selves.
my library grows,
and I rearrange
to remember.