Shattered Timelines of Grief
Grief is an earthquake, sudden and unforgiving,
Splitting the ground beneath your feet,
Turning the familiar into fractured ruin.
It shakes the foundations of who you are,
Toppling memories like crumbling buildings,
Leaving nothing but dust where laughter once stood.
Aftershocks linger in the quiet moments,
A tremor in your chest, a crack in your voice.
You try to rebuild, but the landscape
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Categories:
timelines, death, deep, depression, grief,
Form: Free verse
Timelines Intersecting
There is
An apparent
Lifestory
Which seems to
Fill a timeline..
Life stories
Intersecting
With conflict and
Peace and claiming
Understandings..
Apparently...
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Categories:
timelines, conflict, depression, time, uplifting,
Form: Light Verse
Interrupted Timelines
The volcano leveled
then a great wind blew the rest away.
Early humans came late.
They had callused soles and rough hands
they knew how to dig,
run and hide.
When the flood came
they were at ease feasting on stringy meat and bones
in the makeshift camps of their tribes.
The locust eating priests
declared it was everyone's fault
but theirs.
Contrite, and greatly diminished in
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Categories:
timelines, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Timelines
All my hope is in that other timeline.
The timeline that grew up beside me like a friendly neighbor.
I have moved past what I thought was fate.
Surrounded by old wishes-
That have turned into new promises.
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Categories:
timelines, hope,
Form: Free verse
Grounded Even 1
This is the rest of our lives
Yet they pin us down
Do it, they say
Be whatever, however
Be with whomever, however
Just to have a title
And not to be questioned
Because of these damned timelines
Don't rush us
We actually have nowhere to be
We don't have to actually belong
There, at that corner there
Just a little space, we need it
So that
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Categories:
timelines, growing up, youth,
Form: Verse