Author: Reena Saxena

For: https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2022/02/17/reenas-xploration-challenge-218/, https://sundaywhirl.wordpress.com/2022/02/13/wordle-540/

Image credit: Kelly Ann Tan on Unsplash

(The image shows a child looking at his image in a clear glass.)

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Standing silently 
He stares at his reflection 
Raises his arms above his head
Turn his hands this way and that
Assuring himself that it was indeed only his reflection
He drops to the floor sitting cross-legged 
Quietly he starts to tell his story 
The whispers interspersed with soft giggles 
After a while he says a silent goodbye 
And moves away from his reflection, another him
Being an only child, he chose himself as his friend 

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Written for RXC # 218, hosted by Reena.

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A child who has experienced complex trauma will have difficulty identifying, expressing, and managing emotions.

Child

i am a child of lies
and compromises
of insults
and agonizing cries
of concealed truths
and broken promises

i am a sole witness
to how a once supposed
great love story
turned into
a disgusting
and spiteful relationship

For Reena’s Exploration Challenge https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2022/02/17/reenas-xploration-challenge-218/

Reena’s Xploration Challenge

Haiku – Pensive Tides!

PROMPT #218

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #218

Changeling

By Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher

They keep asking me as if somehow, I can just look in the mirror and know. Am I a boy or a am I a girl? I do not know.I

The that appeal to me. Keep your trucks and GI Joe’s, it’s to the theatre I want to go.

Yet standing here so gaunt and thin, wishing for things that have never been discussed out loud or in private company. What I would do for all the jewels and wealth in the world, I would give it all up for a small bit of money.

Cash to pay the surgeons bill, who’d change this boy into a girl.

I have written 2 haiku for Reena’s picture prompt. They can be read in continuity or as two distinct haiku.

Abusive childhood

wallflower disposition

behavior issues

Orphanage to home

contemplative reflection

family at last?

Inspired by Eugenia’s Weekly Prompt – Envy & Reena’s Exploration Challenge #218

wants forcing our hand
deliberate pondering
envy guides a way

New place, new home, new people
I wonder whether I will make friends here.
Or will it be just me and the boy in the reflection again?

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Joining Reena’s Xploration Challenge – #218