Hope-Afflicted

National Poetry Month 2022

For national poetry month, I am challenging myself to just write poems and share them. Here’s the first one:

it is just a season

they promised, would be short

i would “get over it,”

it will not run (over) me.

i have learned to listen

to the pages turn and let

my mind be filled with questions

and still

i am cherishing myself

even as “season” turns to

seasons an…