Someplace to hang my gown
I had finally found the perfect wood, it was smooth, soft and darkish-brown. for the first time in a long time I felt really good cause soon I would have a place for my gown! I tirelessly sanded, varnished and chipped and found it was a welcome escape. At first my efforts looked nondescript but the ideas in my mindwas takingshape! My fingers had blisters, my arms were sore, my eyes had tears when I began. I wished he would help like he had before, but my husband was a very busy man... Finally the day arrived when it was done, my coat-rack of darkish-brown! I had done it myself with help from no-one, finally I had a place for my gown! Reluctantly at first he agreed to help me, for to put it up was a job for two. But halfway through he stopped for tea and told me that I had the wrong screws. The next day pain and darkness came, I awoke on the diningroom floor. I knew that things were not the same: the life inside me was no more. For a month, a week and a day I lay there, in the hospital in that small little town. For a month, a week and a day I dispaired and could think only of the place for my gown... The day he fetched me I went straight to my room, all I wanted was a place for my gown! But I realized when I entered I was foolish to presume! cause on the floor lay the wood of darkish-brown. I haven't seen him in twenty years - I had long ago left that little town. My eyes still sometimes fill with tears, but I finally have a place for my gown.
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I\'m a 31 year old white male living in Pretoria. What I\'m trying to achieve with my poems is to capture the emotions and feelings caused by events and stories that really touch me.
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