I am feeling grateful today so I have a challenge for you all: pick a mildly bad thing that happened to you recently and reframe it in poem-form to highlight ways you can feel grateful for it. think things like: missing your bus, getting a paper cut, accidentally dying your favourite white shirt bright pink in the wash, etc. don't worry about the poem being good, just worry about it existing!
I'll start:
To My Favourite Cup
Thank you for crashing into the floor
becoming tear-shaped shards across my bedroom.
You forced me to clean under the desk
I had refused to deal with since I got it
& to journey down into the world of dust
& the spider kingdom I had created
through being a neglectful king.
I found my favourite shirt and a Halloween costume
in a box under there-- I thought I had lost them forever.
I sliced my finger on you as I lifted your body
as if perhaps you were clinging as sadly to me
as I was to you, leaving fingerprints on anything
I have had to let go of.
Thank you for being such a good cup
I had to grieve for a week to account for how much I loved you.
There are not many cups like that in the world.
Thank you for reminding me that love makes it hard to let go
& that means the loving was real
& that means the loving left something for me
that I can't get through a good life without tearing a sweater
passing through brambles, reaching for fruit
with the sun in my eyes in one long, loving breath--
Thank you for being only a cup, nothing more than a cup
yet there to remind me of everything else
& the one-instant beauty of anything living
so never enough & so much.
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