Tango's Pain

I have been in pain the past week.  I had an accident and my hip went out-no fun!  I did manage to pop it back in.   Yesterday when the physical started to subside the emotional kind moved in like a cold front.  It involved my daughter-she is ok,  but her heart hurts and it will linger for awhile.  Her three year relationship ended. We all saw it coming-long distance relationships are difficult.  We are doing our best to keep her busy,  make her laugh, and let the tears fall. 

  I am worried though, as we will soon be in the holiday season and this boy will return home.  He is a great kid, nice family, but I really hope he lets her be-so she can heal. This morning I actually felt  a soccer punch to the gut.  It was brief, but strong.  This is the third time in my life, I have physically felt another person's pain.  

Over in the Garden, Grace introduced us to the artwork of Kathryn Dyche Dechairo.  

 Artist Kathryn Dyche Dechairo 

YOU can view more of her work here!   Kathryn's work has also been published in 'The Pulse of Mixed Media' by Seth Apter and the Summer 2012 edition of Artful Blogging.

Tango's Drumbeat

a quick slash

poured salt rains

words stain like

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berries

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taste red's

bitter threads

roll off tongue's sword

cauterize

arteries' hope 

stabbing onslaught begins

"what if..."

"if I had..."

"I should have..."

liquid legs

succumb

to brackish river

throbbing pixels mirror tango's drumbeat

ruby lip tar sticks

and bleeds fragile

 feathers into life's

fallible dance

© Ellen Wilson