They say, if your life
is too bitter then you crave sugar.
And I do remember the acerbity on my tongue
when my father told his diagnose: bladder cancer.
It was like someone filled my mouth with pile of old, rusty
coins and I couldn’t breathe, just in awe, with crucified
jaw I stared at the telephone.
My father soon got better,
yet my body had its own trouble digesting truth:
leaking gut poured all the bitterness of previous months’ uncertainty.
I began to grow sugars, tiny special sugars, cleverly hidden in the pores
of the synovial lakes and joint meanders.
These tiny special sugars, grow and mature
with each season, unharvested,
developing tear membranes,
disguised purple knots in my throat.
Involuntarily nerve-pulsating dreams remind me
how clumsy beginner I was.
Now, with years my skills improved:
I’ve learned with one hand to
keep my stomach intact,
with other to lift my neck
just enough to catch early autumn grapes
in my father’s vineyard,
to erase the bitterness from my head.
Maja S. Todorovic
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Thank you, Maja, for the bright and bitter and sweet piece of life you choose to call poetry. Such a delight hidden behind the skin of an unpeeled grape. I still peel those I put in salads for a love and myself as well. Worth the trouble and this is worth much more than mere read.
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Thank you for the lovely comment, much appreciated 🙂
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I can totally appreciate all what you have written 🙂
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Thank you for your kind comment, much appreciated 🙂
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You are very welcome 🌹
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Perfectly stated. You are an artist.
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Thanks Claudia 🙂
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Words to make you feel as if in touch with you …
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Thank you 🙂
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Lovely sharing. Thank you.
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Thank you for reading 🙂
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My pleasure
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An excellent poem Maja 🙂
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Thanks Davy, it’s one of those confessional poems that sometimes you simply need to expel out of your system 🙂
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Wow I love how you wrote a master piece about some parts of life that really suck! You’re truly talented and very inspirational ! Maybe you can take a look at my new blog I started recently and I’d be happy to exchange likes on posts we actually like of eachothers and a follow
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Thank you for your kind comment. I’d be happy to visit your blog 🙂
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Truly beautiful and so true………….
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very interesting. digesting truth…. not always so yummy. Oh, and the new picture is flattering.
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Thank you for the lovely comment, much appreciated 🙂
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