Synecdoche 2022

Creative Pieces… 55

Getting Better

by Jade McClintock

With faith I wrote, “I don’t know what this is, but I think it’s an apology.”

I wrote, “Please forgive me. Know this is no one’s fault but my own.”

I wrote, “This was inevitable. Pray for me.”

And then I burned it instead of myself And went back to sleep And got up the next day.

Then I wrote, I burned, I slept, I woke.

I WROTE I BURNED I SLEPT I WOKE I WROTE I BURNED I SLEPT I WROTE And did it all again.

I’m still trying… To what? I don’t know.

Hope, I suppose.