“Unraveling the Layers: A Poetic Journey Through Pain and Resilience”
In the delicate dance between pain and rebirth, we often find ourselves teetering on the edge of transformation. What does it truly mean to remake our own identities, especially when faced with the relentless toll of life’s battles? As captured in the evocative lines of the featured poem, the protagonist endures not merely physical discomfort from new injections but a psychological metamorphosis shaped by past trauma and relentless ambition. Grappling with the scars of three tumultuous marriages, she navigates a fog of autonomy where memories and aspirations collide, each step toward her new self a testament to resilience. This poignant exploration raises poignant questions about the choices we make in pursuit of our dreams and how they can simultaneously inflate our emptiness. What happens when the quest for a perfect exterior overshadows the little joys that give life its substance? Dive deeper into this captivating journey of self-discovery — it’s a compelling reflection on ambition, vulnerability, and the quest for wholeness. LEARN MORE
The burning and stinging
is excruciating
just before fresh injections.
But, they’ve chiselled a new face
out of the battle-scarred
‘Picture Of Dorian Grey’
that crawled from the wreckage
and ruin
of three Armada divorces,
which would have slain a woman
with half her constitution,
twice over.
Her soul’s on autopilot
as the medication hums and purrs,
mists and fogs
and the sickness drifts and sways.
She pricks her mind awake,
momentarily,
by counting monthly bank statements
from memory.
Each step away
from that childhood dungaree farm
of hand-me-downs
and ne’er quite enough to go ‘round,
forged her spirits
by trial and error,
hard-earned success,
the thrill of the kill
and the giddying high
of outmanoeuvring defeat.
She now needs a
body to match her ambitions…
it’s practical as well as vanity.
She’s forgotten that it’s the little things
which eventually make up the big
whilst at the very same time
unwittingly augmenting
the emptiness inside
to a size and mass too great to ever deplete.
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