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Operation Nose Drip

The sniffle comes.

The tissue is out of reach.

Moving is difficult.

The skin is already red and patchy

from the previous wipes.

Dread fills up

like your nose as you hope that ignoring it

means it won’t happen.

Then it breaches

and you are forced to take action.

Snuffling and blowing

and wiping

it feels like nothing can correct the problem.

Lost in the Move

All the excess non-comfortable clothing.

A piece of art I made back in junior high.

Many, many books.

Including the first one in a favorite series.

All? of my lip balms?

Now that the dry weather of winter is coming

(and I am sniffily sick) I want my lip balms!

Sigh, I guess I’ll just have to get more!

With the understanding, once I do, I’ll find the rest of them.

In my defense

I have acknowledged the trauma.

My own

and those I gave to others.

I have regrets.

Yet I am finding fewer of them these days.

The confidence needed to survive

has never wavered.

It has merely be side tracked

….

many times.

I do not feel entitled.

Just angry

that the world is not doing what I think it should be.

Politics and religions be damned!

Falling

It is easier

to slide

down

than it is

to crawl upwards.

Most days I can crawl

but these days

I find myself

allowing

the slide

to take place.

Tomorrow.

I hope tomorrow

I have the strength

to stop this slide.

Crawling may just have to wait.