Mistakes Are More Than I Can Handle

A poem

Nikki H. Rose
Nov 7 · 1 min read
Photo by Jen Theodore on Unsplash

I wake up and stumble
unaware
of where I am
or how I got here

I wake up and wish
I hadn’t

I wake up
pushing myself up
off of the floor
and look around

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Nikki H. Rose

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