My best friend, sits on the kerb bawling her eyes out, absolutely heartbroken. I sit beside her with my arm across her shoulders, offering what comfort I can.
“I’m so sorry Barbara,” I whisper pulling her closer. “I’m sorry he did this to you.”
“Why, why, why,” Barbara lamented.
“I don’t know sweetie, but although you probably don’t want to hear this right now, it’s best that you learn the lesson he was sent to teach you now, rather than later. Best you learn it early on in the piece, not after you’d spent years investing in this horrid relationship.”
I was challenged to write a drabble of the word ‘teach'.
Wikipedia defines a drabble as follows :
A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely one hundred words in length. The purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express interesting and meaningful ideas in a confined space.
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Colleen Millsteed
My first love is poetry — it’s like a desperate need to write, to free up space in my mind, to escape the constant noise in my head. Most of the time the poems write themselves — I’m just the conduit holding the metaphorical pen.
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Someone please tell God to stop sending me people to teach me a lesson. I'm not his strongest soldier 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yes, solid advice! And I was drawn into this from the first words :)