30 Day Poetry Challenge: Day 20: ABLE
Day 20: Able Found on an unknown page from the Secret Travel Diary of Ashlen Hodge. This diary is page after page of falling and rising back up. Wondering, doubting, relearning, trying again. Always trying again. I'm glad this word found it's way to me. I often forget about how much I do in my life. How much I have grown and achieved. Sunday's End Comes too Soon Today was a long day When you become an adult, you have those more frequently subtling building a lego tower of tiny shoulds interconnecting, locking, clicking into place so quietly building til you notice the shadow this mountain casts across your once open, sunny day But hey Wasn't this autonomy something we craved stuck behind desks and books and grey walls Wasn't free choice a Golden Land that we would one day achieve once we slogged through the mundane mud of adolescene I remember how overwhelmed I felt as a 2 nd grader watching a 6 th grader do t...