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Written for https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2023/02/09/reenas-xploration-challenge-267/ In That Moment.

In that moment, the day both my children were born, I found out what true love actually meant. My first child, 9lb 1, and let’s just say it hurt a bit. Although all that went away when my daughter was handed to me. We already knew the name, it was always going to be Elizabeth, yet she is more of a Lizzie now. When my son was born (9lb 10) I made sure I had all the pain relief on offer. It was much easier, and again, when he was handed to me, all the pain just melted away.

I never worried about my children, looking after them I mean. They were sturdy, not fragile in the least. I could look after them, without over thinking my role as a mum. Both adults now, I find it hard that my daughter will be thirty-two…

Inspired by Moonwashed Weekly Prompt #129 – Lovingly & Reena’s Exploration Challenge #267 – in that one moment

in that one moment
adoring me lovingly
didn’t know it would end

We were good, we were gold
Kinda dream that can’t be sold
We were right ’til we weren’t
Built a home and watched it burn

Mm, I didn’t wanna leave you
I didn’t wanna lie
Started to cry but then remembered I

I can buy myself flowers
Write my name in the sand
Talk to myself for hours
Say things you don’t understand
I can take myself dancing
And I can hold my own hand
Yeah, I can love me better than you can

Can love me better
I can love me better, baby
Can love me better
I can love me better, baby

Paint my nails, cherry red
Match the roses that you left
No…

I realized in that one moment my life would never be the same again.  My right testicle felt sore, and it was swollen, so my wife said that I should go to the doctor to have it checked out.  I called my doctor’s office and the receptionist said that they could get me an appointment in two days.  My pain got worse and so did the swelling and I was in real agony when I showed up for my appointment.  My doctor asked me what the problem was and then she had me undress.  She examined me and she said that she had never seen anything like this before.  She asked me if it was ok for her to call in another doctor to have a look at me and I told her that she could do anything that she wanted as long as she could make this pain go…

Reena’s Xploration Challenge #266

Mute Spectator


I thought 
Time is the pilot
To lead me in journey of my life
It would teach me the skills
To forget the pain
To face the storms 
To keep balance in all difficult situations
But in the end
I found
Time is
Just a mute spectator
Of your arrival
Your journey
And your departure
It neither stops you
Nor forces you
You learn by yourself 
The art of living 
 It does not fly by
It just stands still
Allowing you
To be the pilot of your life
Learn to keep the balance
To sail through storms
Learn by own mistakes 
Be responsible for your decisions
And bear 
The consequences

Here’s one from some time out of mind:

Horses prance

all about

the fairgrounds.

The captain’s epaulette

with dangling

tassels tussle

as he rides.

Freaks and Geeks

dance in shows

saying the time

is ours now.

And Mary doesn’t remember

me

or she does

but will not/just won’t say.

I recall our

parents smiling

while her Ayrshire

red ribboned

I held a blue
for my cow poem (she pronounces po-em).

We climb the Himalaya

holding tight

amid the screams;

can you tell me

when this hurl

will be over

just to help

us stay sane.

Our head-spinning

stops per doctor ordered

Sizzle Onion

sausages

an after-thought

for a bun.

Sweet lemonade

hide my hiccup

looking down from

top of the world

Ferris wheel

her hand in mine

making imprints

on eternity.

Let us get

lost in the

house of mirrors

and just when we become afraid we won’t get out

RxC # 266

Ah! The indifference of time,

I exist everywhere,

In the by-lanes of crime,

In the hearts of poets who rhyme,

In the deathbeds of ailing,

In the newborns wailing,

In the fast lanes of Gen Z,

In the equanimity of all seeing tree,

Ah! The indifference of time,

Ah! The indifference of time,

I exist unscathed,

If I were to be here,

And you were to be there,

Yet life and causes differ,

Differently, even a mother and daughter suffer,

Know not I, much of you, and you of me,

Except for stories we share of sorrows and glee,

Ah spaced divergently! The indifference of time.

Ah! The indifference of time,

I exist eternally,

On different dimensions,

Harbouring similar apprehensions,

Man, riddled by emotions,

And intoxicated self promotion,

I see moon by the night and you star by the day,

Yet we exist until we may,

Ah!…

“Each take is unique, and that is the beauty of a writing prompt. It takes each one of us on a different trail”

The hands of the clock

Revolve and come back

But the time flows

In one direction only

Like a river the waters of which

Never pass a point again

Lovers meet, embrace and separate

Time decides where,when, and how

Time is the important quotient

In the equation of life

The rise and fall of people

All depends on where they stand

In relation to ever-passing time

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Written in response to RXC 266, hosted by Reena

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