Fifteen Stitches

What screws us up most in life is this picture we have in our heads of how it is suppose to be. What really happens is the one left behind is painted out of the picture even though that person is clearly equal and a collaborator.

© Fifteen Stitches

chaos spilled across the paper moon

opening the window and abandoning

the weights of life he found inopportune

fall into the arms of sweet dreams

the vigilante air held hostage

loving words she dared not utter

he misunderstood fragments of shared moments

and incomplete life puzzles

kneeling in the cathedral of him

collecting and saving broken-heart stitches

the way a child keeps fireflies in a closed jar

she longed for another lullaby

by Mimi Wolske, American author, artist, Renaissance Woman

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(painting: Don't waste your tears by Catrin Welz-Stein)