Do you…
save meaningful mementos from the people and things you love
or hoard objects that may eventually become useful
widen your mouth into a smile when you see your joy
or walk right on by, indifferent
thoughtfully phrase your worries
or blurt out your hurts
dance in the grocery aisles
or remain stoic doing the mundane
laugh unabashedly
or throttle it down, embarrassed
let the dust pile on while you enjoy life
or frantically control your environment
get wounded easily
or have a breastplate made of steel
shamelessly sing loudly
or slowly build into your confident voice
delicately and carefully plod through life unnoticed
or pronounce yourself a bull in the china shop
take a hard hit in times of crisis
or get surrounded by those looking up at you when they do
share the coolest, latest things with friends
or find yourself at a loss when life changes
understand you can’t know everything
or act the fool who thinks they do
think all the time
or feeling blank most of the time
just hate some people
or only love all
Just a few things I was wondering…
Susi Bocks – writer/author/poet, has self-published two books – Feeling Human and Every Day I Pause. You can find her work at IWriteHer.com or follow her on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MyHumanityInWrittenForm/, where she invites you to read her thoughts and get to know her. Bocks’ work has been published in the anthology SMITTEN: This Is What Love Looks Like: Poetry by Women for Women and in Scarlet Leaf Review, VitaBrevis, Spillwords, Literary Yard, as well as other literary magazines.
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Life is for wounds. Love is for gravity.
What would we do if our tears, or the raindrops, never dropped to the soil to sprout something beautiful?
We wouldn’t know how to grow. Thank you for your comment!
Beautifully Written !
Thank you, Prashasti! 🙂
Beautifully crafted
Appreciate it, Almond! 🙂
Beautiful!
Thank you!
This is beautiful 😍💛
Thank you so much, Kat! 🙂
You’re very welcome, Susi! 😊
Excellent questions with ever-changing answers. Sometimes I’m on top, sometimes I am not.
Thanks, Steven! Yeah, the world has a way of doing that to you! 🙂
Lovely poem. 😉
Thank you!