That Morning You Have To Get Up

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That Morning You Have To Get Up

And that morning you have to get up

after the adrenaline and the cortisol have drained 

and your mind has dropped the gun it was holding to your body 

and you have to leave the blankets 

and you have to eat 

and drive and answer questions and be looked at… 

Notice the empty chair they saved for you 

and quietly take it. 

Let them talk around you for a while. 

Let their attention approach you gently; 

take their oblivion as a blessing. 

Trust that you are expected. 

You may not get everything you want— 

one of them looking deeply into your eyes, 

another squeezing your shoulder— 

but sometimes all you have to do 

is rest in the place that is yours 

to get what you need.

2.3.21

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