When people say, “we have made it through worse before”

[mme_n_b]

all I hear is the wind slapping against the gravestones
of those who did not make it, those who did not
survive to see the confetti fall from the sky, those who

did not live to watch the parade roll down the street.
I have grown accustomed to a lifetime of aphorisms
meant to assuage my fears, pithy sayings meant to

convey that everything ends up fine in

Comments

[exceeder]

That was nice. Thank you!

[mme_n_b]

Any time :)

[zapiens]

I'm learning to appreciate free verse.

[mme_n_b]

It's hard, isn't it? It seems too easy and unstructured almost to be poetry (at least to me, and if I'm not reading Tyehimba Jesse).

[zapiens]

Hard, I think, for someone brought up on the very different Russian poetry.

[mme_n_b]

True. Getting used to Japanese or Chinese poetry helps - internalizing one alternative view of poetry helps accept others.

[sartorias]

Very hard hitting, resonant with truth.

[mme_n_b]

Survivorship bias ftw :((

[med_cat]

As you say...

[green_wing]

Beautiful, but hard hitting emotionally 😞

[mme_n_b]

If poetry doesn't hit hard, is it poetry? :)