Letters and Diary Poetry posted July 19, 2023

Chapters:

...9 10 -11- 12...

Exceptional

Protective anger expressed instead of bottled.

A chapter in the book Songs of Recovery

Cutting Words

by K. Olsen

I hope every curving stroke of this pen, every deliberate line slashed across the page, cuts your tongue like a razor blade, so you might feel the vinegar sting of the sour lies you tell through smiling lips.   The harm you have done to this place, once a bastion of love, safety, and healing, leaves a sickness of the soul in its wake, like a poison droplet spreading in a clear pool.   It hurts me so, this outpouring of venom, because it twists and shatters the very bonds of trust holding all righteous things in place.   I cannot trust you within this nest, like a songbird facing down a cuckoo, with vulnerable chicks beneath my wings. So I will batter and buffet for them in defense of those I love, until my soothing song has become the hoarse cawing of the victorious and you are only scattered feathers.