Wise advice for the person who falls apart in me

Martyna Franczuk
Jul 20, 2017 · 1 min read

You have to make new efforts every day.

Dig into what’s already gone.

Breathe — it will end, though it returns like a mantra.

Every day forced to do any work,

even if it was not urgent.

Keep on the last tram, cause we do not know the route,

which can already be lost.

In spite of common sense

with fading heart.

Stifle sadness with fatigue.

Enjoy the interior of every minute in an empty house

surrounded by black women who died in cocoa plantations

and the soldiers plundering Aleppo impatiently

like bubbles in a cold bottle.

To take on the weight of the world

and oppose your own sufferings to apocalypses.

Make it lightweight, carrier.

Wipe out thoughts like confetti

after a party where there was no shortage of

neither fondue nor champagne.

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Martyna Franczuk

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Microbiologist, foodie, fierce promoter of science, and chihuahua mom dealing with bipolar disorder.