A Farewell to Smooth
If you knew it...a poem for Smooth Challenge.
The world you loved is gone
The gentle smoothness
Emotional warmth and softness
The smoothness and kindness
You loved and cherished
Have been replaced
With sharp, rough edges
That pierce, cut and maim
Farewell to the smooth
You remembered
When you were young
The smooth of the freshly laundered linen
The smooth sound of a loving voice, reading bedtime stories
Lulling you off to sleep
The smooth of the kisses on your forehead
For some
They never knew the joy of the smooth
Their life
Almost exclusively
Revolves around
anything but smoothness
Hard love, tough love
Abusive control, bullying, violence and hate
Pain, suffering, harsh linen, no linen
No smooth spoken bedtime stories
No smooth lipped kisses on the forehead
Say farewell to the smooth
and welcome the abrasive reality of life
For if you knew the smooth
You experienced something others
So rarely do
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Thanks for reading!
About the Creator
Paul Stewart
Award-Winning Writer, Poet, Scottish-Italian, Subversive.
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