Saturday, September 22, 2018

a clean-up or even a restoration

                                                                                                    Attribution: Google Images
Image: Ruins (here)

the 11 of 12 given words:
fish tap bucket dream ask swirl 
lamp night water roof call 

to fish for ideas for salvation
to tap into the survival instincts
a bucketful of leads for solutions
are but a dream

to ask questions is to beget
more questions that swirl
in the cluttered mind

a lamp dim-lit at the staircase
the only living thing left
intense in tenacity to keep staying
alive now long gone

nights are cold hot water is
but a wish except for drippings
of leakage from the roof-top

allowed to succumb to vagaries
of nature and left in ruins
a big responsibility to call
for a clean-up or even a
restoration

a face-saving attempt
to right a split-up of parents
imposed on young shoulders

MMT's Sunday's Whirligig #180
Michael's at MLMM's Tale Weaver #189
Mish's at d'Verse's OLN #228

8 comments:

  1. Much is left to ruin and much of the time we or another trying to force their power are to blame.

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  2. The ruins of childhood due to divorce - excellent metaphor.

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  3. There is responsibility assumed in any cleanup. It may require more effort than one anticipated.

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  4. You describe so well the misery, confusion and emptiness of divorce for children, no matter what age. I was especially drawn to the "tenacity" of the lamp. How dare it remain lit when all is gone.

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  5. Dark images are wonderfully explored. Beautiful Hank.

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  6. I see them all the time... and they get through it, scarred.

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  7. Oh wow........those last few lines are heart-breaking.

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  8. A call for a big clean up, I vote for that.

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