Think about how many times I have fallen Spirits are using me, larger voices callin' … And we never failed to fail, it was the easiest thing to do You will survive being bested Somebody fine will come along, make me forget about loving you - "Southern Cross", Crosby, Stills, & Nash A couple of weeks ago, I was in a mood. An intense, teenage mood: fierce, negative, and hard to get out of (for the record, I'm 20+ years past teenager-hood). It gripped me in its fist. I isolated myself, waiting for the storm to pass, not wanting to rain on my husband and kids. After some analysis, the cause of my mood became clear to me: an accumulation of recent events in which I felt like a failure. No specific event was devastating, but there sure were a lot of them: I’d spent too much money on Zulily (my guilty-pleasure shopping website). I’d consumed too much dessert and alcohol, and the bathroom scale displayed the evidence. I missed a chiropractor appointmen...
This was lovely Jen. The descriptions are vivid and you've captured the setting beautifully through what happens. The final stanza also reads like a wonderful metaphor for life and death
ReplyDeleteI love the final stanza. Thanks, Jen.
ReplyDeleteI liked the various scenes you have presented here, if I interpreted the poem correctly. Concise and vivid. The ending stanza is beautifully written.
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