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Laura P's avatar

Ouch

Jim Sanders's avatar

I’ve experienced that hug

Trying for a tug

Upon my heart

For a new start

My body is rigid

My heart is frigid

If I became warm

I’d soon be in a new storm.

Cathy A Wickham's avatar

I love that one can count on the steel sides no matter what.

pamm hanson's avatar

Vivid. We all know…. Fantastic poem

Janie Braverman's avatar

"... the crumbs she didn't want ..."

A great line for an awful feeling - that of being the unwanted 'crumbs'

Kim Nelson's avatar

Ooph. Lots of feelings bundled between those arms.

X. P. Callahan's avatar

Our dreams don’t hesitate to tell us the unflattering truth, do they?

Kim Nelson's avatar

They do not. And your ability to frankly transform those truths into art is uncanny.

Martin Garcia's avatar

Callahan! this part made me laugh:

"something? You never even liked me

and you don’t respect me now."

I think it's because it stemmed from not liking lunch. My GOSH! hah

Hope all is well!

Glenn Ingersoll's avatar

You’d think, wouldn’t you? 😉