She carried her backpack with IDs and walked out one day after their son turned 18 She became the irresponsible one when her only responsibility was adult enough to cope with a family breakup She took the first flight to a new city to start a real life left behind an adult child and a juvenile husband
Tag: new life
It’s Gonna Be Ok
Six Sentence Story prompt – Nebulous
She sits in her grandma’s rocking chair crocheting the blanket she started but too frail to finish.
It’s hard to imagine a nebulous future when grandma passes. They have been looking after each other all her life. She doesn’t know otherwise.
She knows for a fact that she will be without a home when that inevitably happens. However, there is also this deep set of knowing and belief that it’s going to be ok, just like grandma always says.
Rebuilt Hearts
Love manifests in a force of connection
The burning of passion gives off a campfire comfort
It is peace I adore in the deep forest of life
The evergreen thrives in a dim rustic old farmhouse
where we build our light filled home with callus hands
Through your lens
Is that really me?
I have lost that smile
for a decade.
For the first time
in a long time,
I look ahead without
the fear of sunset.
It is all because
the safety I feel
through your lens.
Walk away
don’t pack
another person’s life
into your suitcase
just
walk away
with
the most valuable will
to survive
the shell you lived in
was long decayed
with warm toned furniture
fluffy rugs
and distant smiles in
old photographs
don’t think about tomorrow
what you will need
tomorrow takes care of itself
take hold of today
for
you have lived on
after
the unattended emotions
the isolation from life
the false hatred of yourself
walk away
you walk away
from ruin
to
a new vista
Freedom
break off the commitment leash
jump for joy over the fence
to ever greener pasture
run wild on hills and in valleys
summersault adrenaline ignites every cell
I can breathe!
I can breathe
the wildflowers’ subtlety
the wildfire’s smog
and
the summer love
once more
Flicker of Thoughts 