30/30 is a poetry challenge to write and post a poem a day for the whole of April with no editing in honour of it being National Poetry Month in America.
I have been posting them in the note section on my fan page on Facebook but have decided to post them on here too so I shall be posting the 1st 5 one after another now but do not fret I haven't just written them all today, honest :)
Enjoy :)
1/30
DELICATES
You set yourself the challenge of being the perfect little housewife
and your heart gets lost in there somewhere
within months,
like that missing sock
that never lives to see the light of day again
after the close of the door
and the gathering of water
to clean the dirt away
in the privacy of a normal, any other day
too soiled to make it back from.
The sock will not re-enter your world,
your room.
Will not touch your skin again.
It suffers the consequences he will never face
as you delicately hand wash;
like the label to your heart reads
but you don't follow;
the dirt of his sins away
with the sweat and salt of your own efforts
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