An Everyday Woman's Scare ... revamped

An Everyday Woman's Scare

by Seah Greenhorn

(Poem with copyright)

An Everyday Woman's

Fundamental

Desire
is:

To Please,

Ease the needs

of others,

which

at times,

Propells
her
 forward

Facedown

in puddles

of tears

of her own

making.

Humiliated
and
Angry,

banged up,

battered and bleeding

due

to tripping

after

Juggling

Difficult

personalities,

Jobs multi--

Never ending.

Stressed;

Uncomfortably dressed,

as calories stretched the permanent press

of dingy grey.

UNDER

duress

She prays

to hear

from familial dears:

"Thank you!"

"May I help you?"

"Let me

Relieve

You

of that...--"

Groceries.

Not the car keys

And

these

Words

Only:

Did you forget the cheese?"

as little ones hang on;

 sneeze

again and again.

"Did you bring us from school

a loathsome new disease?

Jeez!"

She rolls over;

Picks herself up;

Swipes at her eyes

as she endures

this reoccurring

Dream.

The Nightmare.

She's

squeamish

day in and day out,

Heartbroken

With

No one

Actually

There.

Her Home

Bare

of

Anyone

For whom she Can care.

Based on Proverbs chapter 31.