
Today’s prompt asked me to write about a challenge I had to overcome and to write about it in couplets.
Unmuted Muse
With a new marbled notebook and purple flair pen
I would unmute my muse’s voice again
Surrounded by teachers who love to write
We’d compose together and find our light
I chose to face my deepest fears
Some I’d kept hidden for too many years
Wondering if I could reveal it all
Or if writers’ block would be my wall
I started with Malibu Barbie, that bitch
Who made me believe I could be rich
And blonde and tanned and skinny and pretty
My hair was kinky and I looked shitty
Then cancer found its way on the stage
While tears bled ink on my page
I birthed words that once knotted my noose
Never expecting my spirit would come loose
Until that poem I titled RAPE
Would leave every mouth and heart agape
Cocked to speak and release the shame
I am not my tragedy, shout my name.
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