Tag: lightbulb

For OctPoWriMo Day 19 the prompt is about being in the present, but this kind of turned into the subject of repairing. The form I’m using is called Synchronicity — “8 (or more), 3-line stanzas in a syllable pattern of 8/8/2. It has no rhyme & is written in the 1st person with a twist. The twist revealed in the last 2 stanzas.”

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Crédit: John Tyson via Unsplash.

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The lights dim, no lightbulbs glow,

He stands on ladder fits in bulbs,

Silent.

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Anything else you require —

Fixed? He’s here in the moment;

Patching.

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We all repair what we can, but —

Still, yearn for nothing to shatter;

Sighing.

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Let our homes be pretty, pristine;

Let them not require such repair,

A joke.

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Reality’s that most everything —

Breaks; becomes brittle, needs mending,

Quickly.

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And, sewers repair with needles;

Doctors with instruments, medicines —

It helps.

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Electricians fix wires, construction —

Workers roads, buildings, many things —

New, old.

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And, even new things degenerate,

We attempt to apply Band–Aids;

Soothe wounds.

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Sometimes this works, skinned knees heal;

Other times blood seeps, water drips, flows —

Over.

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Mom’s heal their children,

They murmur gentle words, they sing;

Kiss scrapes.

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Ultimately, humans discover,

Themselves stuck, un-mendable;

So still.

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Requiring a doctor, or —

Repairman; neither heal or,

Fix all.

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In the end we’re dust, but in life,

We strive; in finality;

Breathe last.

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