Sunday, October 6, 2024
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2024 April PAD Challenge: Day 9

For today’s Two-for-Tuesday prompt:

Write a love poem, and/or…Write an anti-love poem.

Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them.

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Here’s my attempt at a Love and/or Anti-Love Poem:

“there you are”

every day disappearing into an office
early in the morning and returning late
in the evening sharing stories that often
sound like variations on the same theme
eating (or not eating) the same meals and
doing (or not doing) the same dishes
and washing (or not washing) the same
laundry and both of us gaining and losing
the same weight and going to our doctor
appointments in a perpetual cycle and yet 
you have me every day every time with but
a word or a touch or a look and i’m yours