Come on down from there,
if only for a quick minute.
The last time I saw you is
unsatisfactory in hindsight.
Retrospection is a bitch dressed in my skin—
I’ve become leprous.
I may not pray to God, but I do
talk to Jesus. My words
fall on dead ears.
Christ will not come to me.
And if only for a quick minute, you will not
come down from there.
*
Your mother keeps on ringing me.
I don’t answer.
Does my cruelty hurt you terribly?
Some things I just can’t do to honor you.
To answer is to satisfy Jehovah, and I do not
wish to please Him. He’d used her willing hands to
ruin you. I’ve decided that
forgiving trespasses does not heal me.
Leave the forgiving to God.
Some things are simply
unforgivable
by the human heart.
*
You were both meaner and kinder than me.
I float about the in-between,
neither better nor worser.
Mother, how could you have
ever thought yourself
lesser than me?
You were my teacher—
the one who’d showed up
drunk every day,
but a teacher nonetheless.
And I wish you’d come down from there,
if only for a quick minute.
*
Come on down from there,
if only for a quick minute.
The last time I saw you is
unsatisfactory in hindsight.
© Kindra M. Austin
(image: Rick Richards)
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Hot darn, this is amazing. Amazing and devastating. 💔
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❤❤❤❤❤🦄
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haha cute!
(one of these is not the same 🤓)
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😂❤
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hehe 💕
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Now I have Sesame Street stuck in my head! 🙂
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Whoops! 🤡🚫
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LOL!!!
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Your words are so poignant my friend.
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❤ Thank you lovely lady!
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You are so welcome
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This is awesome! Image matches well
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Thank you so much, my friend! ❤
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Reblogged this on A Global Divergent Literary Collective.
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I’ve decided that forgiving trespasses does not heal me: I couldn’t agree more.
Loved this poem, Kindra.
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❤ Thank you, Basilike!
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You welcome, warrior lady!
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I hope all is going well, my friend! ❤
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Yes, life is becoming normal again. I’ll tell you more soon, my dear.
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Yay!! I’m happy for you ❤
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I knew you would be!
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