Trauma sparkle
Inspired by Everything, Everywhere, all at once (film)
a politic
is a bag o’ tricks,
Taxes are the best bag of all
You win some you lose big I am
The Queen of tired
Fucking exhausted like a waterlogged rock
I’m a rocket, screaming into space
I’m
The A bomb racing into my heart
My tiny roof where I hide from the crazy people
Crazy like me
I wish somebody would tell me I’m not crazy
and sit me down.
Sit me down and quietly do nothing
I can’t stop
Even for a minute I am collapsed in a confused state of nuclear cold fusion
But now
I sunk into my trauma sparkle
Losing you, losing you
Was losing me
I cannot bear to be so bare with you
I’ll be an angry grizzly bear
Before then,
Crying spicy, soft and sweet tears
Water and salt
Definitely wet
My face is a waterfall
You are the waterfowl
Dipping into my brain
I’ll probably just have a rest
Life can’t move forward
I’ll link sparkle to my fragile nerves
And soothe my baby, my darling daughter
Hold her so tight I can’t breathe.
About the Creator
Melissa Ingoldsby
I am a published author on Patheos,
I am Bexley by Resurgence Novels
The Half Paper Moon on Golden Storyline Books for Kindle.
My novella The Job and Atonement will be published this year by JMS Books
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Comments (2)
"My face is a waterfall You are the waterfowl Dipping into my brain" These lines were my favourite and I kept rereading them! Loved your poem!
I think you have summed up the film quite well here...