One Bloodied Pencil Stub

one bloodied pencil stub If “What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger” then I’ll have one muscle bound corpse and one bloodied pencil stub. Let us define death as the absence of …. innate qualities life’s essentials buried beneath the fear of exposure. And strength …..let us describe strength… as the tenacity of life’s indefatigable longing to survive ……to persevere …….to triumph over the doubts of …….death’s doomsayers To be exhumed …….from the fear ………of writing …….By writing. 73 words February 24, 2017 submitted to – What Doesn’t Kill Us – Poetry Contest