Pardon the Inconvenience
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Our apologies.
When you come here
it will be a mess.
It will not be easy-
the things you take for granted will require
effort, focus and time.
You will need to sit
in slow discomfort, unburdened by the
distractions that help you
forget
ignore
dismiss
Instead, you must re-learn
patience
and read things carefully from
beginning
to
end
But if you can sit in the
frustration
boredom
anxiety
until it passes, the other side
of this emotion offers
consideration,
thoughtfulness
observation
If you try something new
you are going to fail
After, if you can wait out the
pain,
humiliation,
regret
to the point of reflection
a spark of quiet wonder
may begin to hum and glow.
About the Creator
Penny Fuller
(Not my real name)- Other Labels include:
Lover of fiction writing and reading. Global sailor living on a boat. Woman in science. Most at home in nature. Working my way to an unconventional life, story by story and poem by poem.
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