Melani Udaeta Poet Free verse

Poetic Podcast Episode 37

Do we have to look the same 
to support each other?

Do we need a hive of  ‘groupthink ‘
to support each other? 

Do we have to weather a storm 
to support each other? 

Do we need to be moving far away
to support each other? 

Do we have to already be dead 
to support each other?

I have thought about this often,
I’m at a cliff’s edge with a white towel.

Do I have to hit the icy water,
nose dive with nothing more to offer?

Does everything have to end up over? 
I have given everything I had.

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Hilda Greenhough March 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM It's fruitless. I can imagine the grief in your poem. It has a great write. Melani Udaeta March 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM Thank you. Yeah sometimes I am too aware of what is real and what’s not. Blessings.