The Day Is Ready for You by Alison Malee

Author:Alison Malee
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2018-04-30T20:56:26+00:00

faith

but sometimes the only thing you can do

is hold on with your little, stubborn heart and have faith.

weapons

strange. how the weapons did not wound us.

the battle-axes, the knives, the sharp, sharp words.

how the enemy climbed over our garden walls

and into our towns. crept through our windows,

jazz music slow. pressed pointed edges against our skin.

spit around their own tongues,

you will never be enough.

what could we do but accept defeat?

wish for no more bloodshed? but no. no, we

tell them that they are not real. laugh in their faces.

tell them that this? this is all just one big metaphor

for how there will be people who wish to tear you down.

people who will grab and claw and strike by any means necessary.

that it will feel like war. that it will feel like all you have is enemies.

but no. no, we have decided not to give them any power.

and that means that this is a one-sided discussion.

a one-sided battle. a nonexistent power struggle.

and so we laugh. we belly laugh.

we see them through the curtains

and laugh until we are breathless.

we yell, turn back now.

because i promise, no one can gain ground here

if we keep our feet (our hearts) rooted. firmly.

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