glimmer Archives - Poetry For Healing

Enslaved

For one brief moment

I saw that glimmer of hope

That comes with every sunrise

Is this the day

when I will no longer

hear the words that chastise?

Will this be the day

Someone comes for me

To lead me from the darkness

So I can be free

from this prison

of cruelty and starkness

Perhaps today you will forget

to lock the door of this room

so I might escape

Being your sex slave

has taken it toll

I can take no more brutal rape

Christine Bolton – Poetry for Healing ©

Prompts:

and in response to Sue Vincent’s Thursday Photo Prompt (Below) Glimmer

Different Animals

Anticipating your response
Of what will surely come
I brace for the onslaught
My nerves tightening
As I become more fraught

Vacillating the point
Until we were drained
Back and forth and back again
Wishing it would end
But the winner does not yet reign

Storming off in anger
I see you under the lamppost
Smoking a cigarette
Exhausted from the argument
I prefer solitude feeling a threat

After an abundance of angst
You come back in the house
Our boiling has lowered to a simmer
Your eyes find mine
and hope is now a glimmer

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