Day 13, OctPoWriMo, all caught up!
Your Own Hero
We go on.
It’s what we do.
The strong,
the survivors
don’t fall apart.
We don’t cry victim.
We shrug away dissonance.
We gleam in the sunshine.
We foist away drama.
unless we’re writing it
I understand you
but I don’t want to be you.
With the daily drama
the attention-seeking,
the planned tears.
You need attention
but you’ve never learned that crying
gets you nowhere.
That you have to understand
bootstraps
and yank yourself up
to be your own hero.
end 10/16/2016 (3)
S. Darlington
Nice writing, I’ve tried doing poetry before, but it’s hard. Its impressive to be able to fit so much emotion in so few words, Good Job.
Thank you. I’ve been writing a lot of very short flash fiction so I think it’s a little easier progression.