Repair
To escape the chaos
that is you
I must find fortitude
Lashing back
is no longer an option
Needing solitude
I lose myself
in the secret garden
of my mind
Where I am calm
Healing can begin
and justice is blind
Floating on a sea
of mundane thoughts
Exorcising the discontent
Here I countdown
to the return of sanity
The storm to circumvent
Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing ©
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Love this! <3
Thank you so much! 🙂
Absolutely! You are so welcome❣️
Very good writing. One of your best Christine.
Aww, thank you so much Darnell. That means a lot to me 🙂💕
Wonderful job. I can’t say it too much.👍
🙂💕
Yes! Very inspiring!
Thanks so much 🙂
May the time spent in solitude give us care, calmness and energy.
It usually works for me Grace 🙂
Circumvent—great word!
🙂 Thanks Jane!
I like the juxtaposition in the first stanza of ‘fortitude’ and ‘solitude’, leading the reader to the secret garden of the mind.
Thanks Kim. Yes, we need both, don’t we?
This was a captivating read CHRISTINE. “The secret garden of my mind” — cool! Thank you for sharing it for OLN,
Thanks, as always, Rob. You are always so kind with your comments and I always appreciate it 🙂💕
Oh this is absolutely stunning!! ❤️
Thanks you so much 🙂💕
I love this poem. It really fits with the space I am in right now, and paints the hiding and withdrawal into personal healing with such stunning rhyme and rhythm. The seeking of peace.
Like Jane, I love the use of the word circumvent, it frames the nautical/navigational theme so precisely and is a special little surprise that clicks the entire poem with a satisfying “Chonnkk, Fwaapp” (my phrase for something settling perfectly into some previously unknown open defect in my mind), at the end.
Lona, thank you so much. I really appreciate your kind words. It mens a lot 🙂💕
I really do love this poem!
Shelter from the Storm. Everyone needs a place like this.
I need one today! 😏
Lovely!
Thank you 🙂
Hi, thank you for introducing me to this calm chaos. I guess most of us today relate to this and you did a brilliant job in writing this poem.