Today’s Prompt is to write a love and/or anti-love poem.
To Love the Monsters
by Beth Weaver-Kreider
I have been going on the assumption
that it is the calling of my soul
to love the ones I want to hate,
to find a way to live with heart so open
that I cannot help but part the veils
of rage and fury that encompass me
to see the tender shoots of something
human that lives within the monsters.
I have begun to doubt the truth of the call,
uncertain whether I possess the character
to turn calling to possibility.
Yet something deep within me knows
that this is the deeper truth:
that hate breeds hate and love breeds love,
and I get to choose which one to grow.
Gratitude List:
1. Putting together a chapbook
2. Making little booklets with the staff of Silhouette today
3. The monsters do not define us
4. Compassion
5. Reading The Phantom Tollbooth with Joss
May we walk in Beauty!
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