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Choose Your Own (ad)Venture
with
h e s i t a t ing
t
i
n
y
steps
she ventured toward the door
marked
CLARITY
for she valued
SAME
-ness
and
FAMILIAR
-ity
and
a
REASONABLE AMOUNT
of Comfort.
Which did she want more,
CLARITY
or
COMFORT?
Her chest held RoCKs
while her belly held
s
e
butterfl i
Each evening she returned to
SAME
and
a REASONABLE
AMOUNT of
Comfort
but the next morning she’d
check the weather
and
biting her lip
carrying the RoCkS
holding her
y
flutte r
belly
she’d
venture toward the
door
marked
CLARITY
a
teeeee n s y
t i n y
bit
closer
till one day when
she woke
to check the weather
and the storm
B L E W
against her window
she ventured out
anyway
closer
and
closer
to the door
when she saw
l i t t le
b i t ty
letters
etched
beneath the word
CLARITY
spelling out
( f r e e d o m )
and she R A N out
never to
return
for freedom was better
than
a REASONABLE
AMOUNT of
any
thing
on
a n y
morning.
*
jle2019
THIS. IS. STUNNING.
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Thank you! It was so much fun to write. 🙂
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