Monday, May 18, 2015

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.






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