My heart is so warmed that someone has been influenced by one of my poems. You are right it is so important that we care for one another, our natural ability to be narcissistic often blinds the need to care for each other. Thank you so much for commenting, it means so much to me! Have a blessed day (: -anna sluder
It is the space between words And the space between the time that things are right and despair Where he couldn't breathe under the smothering pillow feathers of pain But she danced like hope in the in between To the melody that made him tell pain to be damned. -anna sluder
I would like to be orange and blue at the same time, I would like to cut a crown out of paper and place it on my head, I would like to tell the toothless girl with a falling out french braid and a dinner fork plunged through her hand that I love her, that it was okay to count the splotches of blood on the linoleum, if it was her only solace from the world. I want to make my bed with children’s sleuth books, and pretend i have dragons protecting me in my fists, I want to tell the toothless girl with falling out pigtails and a pool stick plunged through her chest that I love her, that it was okay to count the carpet fibers as friends, if it was her only solace from the world. I want to wrap her up in the purple of my heart, open the window wider so she can hear the song of the water, rearrange the commas of her childhood, give back things she never knew she lost to the skeleton of her youth, call out to her from the ot...
Thank you for the reminder that we should take the time every now and again to take care of our friends.
ReplyDeleteGreetings from Gemuenden, Germany.
Rick Westerman
My heart is so warmed that someone has been influenced by one of my poems. You are right it is so important that we care for one another, our natural ability to be narcissistic often blinds the need to care for each other. Thank you so much for commenting, it means so much to me! Have a blessed day (:
Delete-anna sluder