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Reena’s Xploration Challenge #218

gazing into space

deeply searching for answers

elders couldn’t provide

will he pursue his queries

that life and time will decide

Image credit: Kelly Ann Tan on Unsplash

Well, it’s an image prompt. It shows a child looking at his image in a clear glass. https://reinventionsreena.wordpress.com/2022/02/17/reenas-xploration-challenge-218/

Even standing
in front
of the mirror,
I reflect behind me.
Should this be called life?

My school closed
and I got bored
at home.
All the scams outside.
Is this life?

Why the scam
of others
in my life?

Vague reflections,
vague existence
and vague life
should all be clarified.

©️ Jane Aguiar

Image credit: Kelly Ann Tan on Unsplash

Written in response to:

Reena’s xploration Challenge

Thank you for reading.

Stay Blessed! 💞

fingers slipping
joints clicking
every moment counts
digits creaking
thoughts fading
time is running out
no more posting
no more scrolling
you can’t WhatsApp me now
battery’s dying
signal’s failing
.
.
.

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Image credit: 8machine@ Unsplash
The image shows two skeleton’s hands reaching towards a digital device enveloped in purple-pink haze.

Written in response to Sadje‘s What Do You See #122 photo prompt

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.

#Keepitalive

#RXC

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.