75 WORDS — 10 REQUIRED
Linger
To be a cliché or not to be
I have left the cocoon yet reject the notion I’m a butterfly.
No being delicate, fluttering about the bush, I insist. This pleasant metaphor’s metamorphosed into awful cliché,
a reduction-sauce of Psyche over-simmered on stovetops. Time to scrape it into the dumpster of discarded lives.
Mine, not yours. Linger as Soul deems. Ride winds — wings applauding, absorbing rainbows.
Clichés, rainbows – my cloyingly visible Exception to my snarky rule.
I am Promise arched, colors resisting fading.
©Jenine Bsharah Baines 2022
A response to Adelia Ritchie’s challenge to write a 75-word response that included these ten words: reject, butterfly, delicate, insist, pleasant, awful, reduction, linger, visible, exception.
The Muse took wing with “butterfly.”
Thanks, Adelia and Shadowgnosis, for the home at The Open Kimono. Thank you, dearest readers, for visiting.
Love.
Love, as we will discuss, is a power — perhaps the greatest power that we have to give to one another. Love is capable of restoring a person to the threads of life, to inspiring a person to want to live, and to giving someone (including ourselves) the capacity to endure the unendurable. Love is no ordinary force. Indeed, love is more than love; it is an expression of the life force itself.
Caroline Myss
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Thank you.
