Writing Prompt

The dress I’m wearing is from my dead mother. She killed herself when I was 12 and this is all I have left of her after the fire took everything else away. The blue silk around my waist reminds me of the piercing shade in her eyes whenever she wore it. Now that I’ve made a new life in this small town, I don’t want to be known as the Mother Killer anymore....

Sitting at the dinner table, stomachs full of some undersized, over priced, fusion meal, we continue with our small talk, Catching up on the past ten years since we last saw each other.

I’m Jenn, the blond in the red dress, with my back to you, dear reader, and I hate these ‘ladies’. As we continue to sit and chat, desserts half eaten, wine glasses empty, and coffees coming out, I look around ...

The many faces of me

The woman they try to, but cannot see

Veils of doubt, fear, and uncertainty

No more pretending, I let my spirits free

They join me in my silence,

Join me in my pain

Celebrate my triumphs

I know them by many names:

Hope, Love, Life, Joy, Hurt, and Insane

Lastly, Grace, sits in quiet command

Her ability to forgive and let go

I do not understand

Lovingly, we surround her

Ho...

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“I’m sur...

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