Thursday, January 6, 2022

Crawling Across Jell-O

 

Fear salts wounds

knifed by zealots

who march in factory

parades of cloned

tongued pushers

of caustic positivity.

 

There are times

the rosy picture

can’t and shouldn’t

remain framed

on a face that

only wants to fall

into the snotty

blabbering of broken.

 

Strong doesn’t mean

you can always stand,

never doubt, never question.

It is feeling your knees give out,

the taste of bile, weary raging curses

at the rain of agony storming

through your spirit…It is crawling

across Jell-o circumstances

trying to breathe your way

into the next hour.


©Susie Clevenger 2022


 Shay's Word Garden Word List #7


It has been a long three weeks of agony with my oldest daughter's new health emergency and it continues. Poetry is my journal, so this is a page from mine.

4 comments:

  1. sounds like "the job", which would explain why this poem is shaped like an unopened bottle of something very alcoholic that really, really wants to be opened... or maybe i'm just thristy. very well written

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  2. I am not sure what exactly is the issue with Dawn, but I know it's been a meatgrinder for both of you. Anything, including poetry, that helps you get through it is a good thing. All my best to you and your family, Susie.

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  3. Susie, I felt the raw anguish of the strong being forced into a powerless circumstance. My prayers continue to healing for Dawn and to shore you up for her.

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