Not a Straight Line

by The Quiet Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

Healing is not a straight line. It is a dog path through tall grass, a pocket full of wrong turns, a bridge that stops mid-river. It is Tuesday feeling easy and Wednesday knowing your name. It is laughter at the market, then tears beside the bread. Still, the feet learn something: not how to leave the woods, but how to find water there.
63 words · 11 lines · Free Verse
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