Poem -

A title is everything

I learned to be kind 
To my right side.
The hand had turned into
More of a club,
You see?

I learned to slow down.
I was injured 
Like I'd never been.
The hand sagged 
At my side when I walked

Like a sad impish retiree,
Swollen, the knuckles 
Displaced 
And the fingers unusually 
Fat,

Not like the long musical 
Things they once had been.
An ugly thing 
To look down and see.
The other hand 

A reminder of how 
When things were well 
I should have known 
They weren't as bad 
As I made them out to be.

A sad, sad thing,
Still I wrote my poetry.

 

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Marion

Full of regret this wonderful verse. I have had similar thoughts recently, things taken for granted that are suddenly no longer there. Hugs x

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Rory McGinlay

Regret, we could all live with a little less of it, eh?
Nice insight, thanks M for being reader of mine.

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Marion

You don't have to thank me R... I find your work interesting and refreshing.
x

 

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Shirley Harrison

A title in a poem, is certainly important but a title in life? Well you can choose for yourself those ones, we can be who ever.we want to be, this is a beautiful reminder of that. Time to be a swan? 🌹 

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