Poem A Day
All Poems by: Tonia M. Christle
Sunday, November 13, 2022
Climbing High
Saturday, October 29, 2022
So, What's The Hardest Part?
Saturday, October 1, 2022
Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Thursday, September 1, 2022
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Thursday, July 28, 2022
Overridden
Don't ask
For consent
Stay on task
Do what's meant.
Tick the boxes
Take my safety
Force me to transfer
Then leave me in agony.
Is it that important
To do everything you came for?
Does my pain matter at all
Anymore?
Now I spend all day
Recovering stamina
Pushed beyond
My limits first.
Can I ride out muscles
Tensing
When everything hurts?
Don't tell me PTs
Aren't damaging
When I know
They are.
When I know them
Deeply
And I know many
Bear their scars.
Friday, July 22, 2022
Finding Myself
Stuck in place
Pseudomomonas daze
I try to write in a world
That's ever-changing.
Try to find my voice again
In this place that makes
Me voiceless.
Can I come back
From this black
Hole of nothing
To hope for something?
So let me find myself
Learn myself
Understand that this is a
New self.
Just as good
And worthy
As the old.