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There would be no smooth solutions
No easy way to extract
Themselves
From the tangle
They had let grow
All around them.
Only one way out was left:
Through the bramble,
Through the sorrow
Through the scars that would
Need nursing
Back to truth.
For the dVerse quadrille challenge: Bramble
“So, remember,” her hand on the door’s handle. “Bedtime at 9, only one treat, brush your teeth.”
“And no opening the door for anyone,” he intoned.
At least it got him a smile. There weren’t many of them of late.
She tucked an errant lock of hair behind an ear and suddenly he couldn’t stand it.
“When will you be back?” He knew. He had to ask.
She glanced at the window. The court-order weighed heavy on her mind.
“When Luna goes to bed behind the mountain, I’ll be home.”
For the last time.
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
Photo: Ofir Asif
In most wretched times
When wrongdoers invade
Do not yourself turn
Echo chamber for knaves.
For the blight
Of untruth
And the stain
Of disdain
Can quite easily infect
Those who would not
Take heed from similar
To abstain.
For The Daily Post
Photo: Amitai Asif
As tensions hold
The edge
Between manageable
And overwhelmed,
Between spared
And flooded,
Be tender.
As scales tip
To potentiate
Disaster
And fluctuate
From safe
To calamitous,
Be kind.
Remember how
Critical times
Hold within them
The balance
Of rebuilding
On the fabric of
Strength
And profound
Understanding.
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