Closure Vs. Acceptance

This poem is reprinted from Challenges.

CLOSURE VS. ACCEPTANCE

What do you do when . . . .

your life is dreary as days without sun
and you know this is forever?
your body is broken, like pieces of bread
thrown out to the birds?
your mother’s plate is so full of your suffering
she cannot eat and disappears into another world?
your father’s dreams have vanished and you
feel the weariness in his eyes?

What do you do when the road is full of branches
and you can’t get through?
You realize that it will never get better than this.

You survive.

-~ Laura Chagnon

© Copyright Laura Chagnon.
Unlike the Belle of Amherst who chose to be a recluse, Poet Chagnon has been paraplegic, cannot read or use her hands, and infected with HIV since she was viciously attacked and left comatose almost eight years ago. Thanks to therapy, her thinking is normal. She may be contacted through Challenges.