Today's Verse Love Host, Stacey Joy asks us to write a poem about beginning again as in a new landscape, identity, or perspective. She asks us to write from perspective about what has changed, remain or what uncertainty might look like. I've been formulating these poems in my mind for longer than this prompt in the years of recovering from a late-in-life split from my spouse, home, family-as-it-was. I am sharing both an etheree and a haiku about swimming my way back. I am still swimming
Had family, career, spouse, plan until,
On my own, edge of retirement,
I floundered, thrashed, then, swam harder,
Lap after lap, stroke by stroke,
Confidence, Your story
Isn't over, yet,
You are enough
Resilient
Growing
Strong
Drowning in sadness,
Stroke, kick, breathe through pain, darkness
Stronger, braver me.
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