Bleeding Ink

NinjaGirl

start a new chapter they say

so I do, try to move on

keep going

they tell me I've got the pen

I get to choose how my story goes

so I try to keep writing

try to forget the chapters of trauma

but it somehow fades through

affecting the plotline it seems

I cant get rid of it

no matter how many new chapters I start

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  • sorenbarrett

    Past trauma has sullied the page and turning it only finds it has blead through to the next. Maybe a new book is in order. A great poem of how one's past can not be discarded and affects one's future. A mislaid brick set in cement must be built around if not removed. I can hear the anxst in this poem.

    • NinjaGirl

      Not terribly easy to bind a new book without getting the ink on my hands onto the new clean pages

    • Poetic Licence

      Frustration of being trapped in the pain of the past, our past is and will always be there, we have to learn ( and it takes time ) to understand and accept it in a better way, than it allows us to have future. Well written piece from the heart

    • Tristan Robert Lange

      Indeed, healing is a long, hard road out of hell. Our past, in part, informs who we are, so the past cannot ever fully be discarded, good or bad. I get that realization and the sense of frustration out of it. With that said, I also get resilience. Nowhere in this poem is there a hint of stopping writing...metaphorically or literally. And that's the key, right? We muddle through somehow. Well done in tackling some more icky cliches. ๐ŸŒน๐Ÿ‘

      • NinjaGirl

        I love that insight, you're right, it's a beautiful thing not to want to give up anymore

      • LP2187

        This is so true, canโ€™t possibly relate anymore, good writes thanks for sharing!

        • NinjaGirl

          thanks for reading!



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