Take in the second, the moment, the third, when something is more than the nothing we created in our minds to explain existence. But there was something more, always, more so we moved in the space together pushing and pulling as the tension twisted and built in lower stomachs and screamed its release as eyes … Continue reading Facebook Short Poetry Series #7
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Letter #27: To The Man Whose Life I Couldn’t Save
To the Man Whose Life I Couldn't Save, You were my first cardiac call. I was new, fresh out of 4 months of EMT training, and you were my first cardiac call. Until you, it was a few broken bones, some colds, and a lot of elderly patients. But you were young or at least … Continue reading Letter #27: To The Man Whose Life I Couldn’t Save
Facebook Short Poetry Series #6
Textbook versions of the feel good moments drift like drugs through our systems, it gets better, despite the world being on fire we smile while letting it burn, ignoring the licks, of flames that burn less than the hope we were told. Did you see the fighter slip away? Passed in the night when we … Continue reading Facebook Short Poetry Series #6
Facebook Short Poetry Series #5
we shifted the scene to fit our benefit, and left the losing to the rest of them forget all you knew, knowing was sold to the highest bidder to bitter to show honestly outside of their eyes. dreamed moments of living a life before the dying gets done, we survive because fighting for life is … Continue reading Facebook Short Poetry Series #5
Faith Taryn Davies 