Derailed
Fraught with anxiety
from your polarizing display
of how to sabotage this special day
My nerve endings are stretched
and entwined into an intricate
pattern of macrame-knotted pain
I am frozen in place and time
Numbingly shocked by the spectacle
I have just witnessed
Copyright © 2021 Christine Bolton - Poetry for Healing
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Mish is hosting Monday Quadrille at D'Verse Poets
and has prompted us with the word "knot" to be used any
which way we choose
A Quadrille is a poem of exactly 44 words, excluding the title
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
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