Rebirth

 It's the weekend.

So here's a brief distraction for those needing something to read and absorb.

Salute.

Q:

What made you write poetry?

Was it an unconscious calling?

A need or just a natural progression of self-expression?

Or maybe even the 5 stages of post-traumatic growth from a break-up or bereavement?

Or just a need to change?

In my opinion, there is no midlife crisis if this term comes up.

It's just an awakening.

An awakening to a new way of life from the deep slumber of the old

Through perhaps one of these

All been told

A: A deeper acknowledgment of living.

B: Interactions with nature, family, friends, and strangers.

C: Brand-new eyes to see your own pathway.

F: A means to rebuild your mental strength.

Or even

E: Spiritual enlightenment 

My answer was post-traumatic linked to all 5.

Someone crossed over and experiencing the eventual demise 

Of their memory over time, in many. 

A thought suddenly appeared out of the Ether.

When my time comes, will I disappear only to reappear twice a year?

It whispered

Write.

Write books 

Create music

Poetry 

Anything 

Create an extension of you

To stay within the throes of Time

Don't just be a jaded memory visited on your birthday and at Christmas 

When people remember 

Why they miss us

So here's a memory of that ethereal conversation 

Recounting those thoughts from my flux

Title 

Rebirth

Child of mine

Who hears my calling

The strong 

The weak and maybe you 

The newly fallen

Will you be one of my prose soldiers? 

To help thaw out those whose hearts are now borne frozen

While trying to survive

Swimming in seas 

Of the Torn 

Amongst the Sloven

(C)

Copyright John Duffy 

Definitions of sloven:

noun: a coarse obnoxious person

Sloven in this creation represents, a myriad of negative Russian dolls.

What do Russian dolls as this metaphor mean?

It could 'mean' the many negative situations, carefully compartmentalized in an embodiment of a physical form

One encounters in everyday situations.

So, from A to E, which one will you pick?

Have a great weekend and hopefully, you enjoyed this brief distraction.

Salute.