And somehow we're already on our third Two-for-Tuesday prompt of the month. This is the one that shows up each and every April. For this Two-for-Tuesday prompt:
Write a love poem and/or...
Write an anti-love poem.
Remember: These prompts are springboards to creativity. Use them to expand your possibilities, not limit them. — Robert Lee Brewer, Writer’s Digest
Love
has been the subject of
literal millions of poems
over thousands of years
and so who am I
to think I can think of
something about love
that hasn’t been said?
But I am the only one
who can speak to my own experience.
And so that, I can tell you about.
My love for Rader is
a force of such power
that I exhausted every idea
to help him find ease in this world;
I tried all possible avenues to save him.
And when those efforts failed,
when the object of that motherly love was gone,
still it beat and beat within me
and grew and grew until I could not contain it.
Until every day it spills over
drives the work that I do
is my Foundation.