Writing Prompt

A March Tragedy

Response to the March Promposity Challenge, “In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb”

He came into her life with the roar of an explosion They were making a life Moving towards something bigger Something greater than each of them alone When things began to falter They faded gradually Then the quiet came With his increasing absence The phone that didn’t ring The promises that weren’t kept When finally, he slid from her life There was no single moment No blackout Only the culmination of what no longer was Persisting through the spring

. . . the summer

. . . . . . and into the fall

For the first time She looked forward to the winter Hoping it would freeze her memories And render them inaccessible below the ice Never again to thaw or flow

Natalie Frank (Taye Carrol) has had her poetry featured in several anthologies including Untimely Frost. Her fiction has been published in Haunted Waters Press, Weirdbook Magazine, Siren’s Call Publications, Lycan Valley Press and Zero Fiction among others. Her collection of poetry, Disguised I Breathe, In Love I Hold, can be found on Amazon under her pen name, Taye Carrol.

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