Landmines (5-2 poetry)

 

It is amazing how traumatic words and experiences get embedded in our minds. A word or a comment can take your right back reliving that moment as though it was yesterday. I look at words like that to be unexploded mines in our psyche. The problem with these mines is that even though they are triggered, they keep resetting to be triggered again and again. This should remind us of how important our words are to others. Words spoken can be excused, denied, or even forgiven, but they can never be taken back.

Landmines  (5-2 Poetry)

Though you’re gone for years

Words remain

In my vast mind field

Unexploded

Waiting for one misstep

 

One trip

Triggers disruption

Exploding

Scattering Shrapnel

Negative

Memories of you

Long dead

Revive in an instant

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• 5-2 poetry is a new idea for writing poetry, presented by  Amaya Engleking, that has five syllables in the first line and two syllables in the second line, repeated as often as needed.  Amaya’s blog is Gospel Isosceles.  https://gospelisosceles.wordpress.com/2017/12/19/serendipity/