Problems
Their hands were signaling for help
to get them out of their situation.
They often floated to the highest point
of the room—the ceiling—and observed,
from that vantage point.
Things didn’t look so bad from up there,
but they ultimately knew their pain
was circumstantial, and not a physical object
that one could remove, or fix.
A lot of it was demands from
the capitalist system outside,
and a lot of it was psychological abuse
from the father and husband.
…
My own pain is something I have to get over,
eventually. I have to move on, sometime.
“Learn from this one, and move on, emotionally,”
is something I should have done way back,
near the beginning
of all my incidents.
I find it hard to implement it;
it’s a supremely hard practice.
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