Rose Water
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1 min readSep 11, 2017
Words of affirmation sit
On my shoulders and tremble
My hands shake and hands grip my heart
Short breaths
Of anxiety
And then a cold stare
A heartless, thoughtless remark
Snide
I tried didn’t I —
Didn’t I notice
When they were lost and alone
Felt a failure
Forgot they were
Enough —
I reminded them
But today, like most days
I wasn’t
And I sit in warm water scented with roses, wondering how they’d miss me.