Saturday Centus: After the Silence

Ms. Jenny's prompt this week is from the Bruno Mars song, "Grenade". My 100 word prose is wrapped around the prompt, bolded and highlighted in green, below. Please feel free to critique in your comments below...how else am I going to learn? Enjoy.

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Once upon

this life of mine

there was his promise.

Promises of love,

of hope spoken

in soft gentle voice,

of dreams yet to be fulfilled.

I laughed through tears

when he burst out in song

and sang sweetly to me,

“I’d even catch a grenade for ya!”

I believed him.

Reality set in.

The silence is deafening.

Soundless shouts erupt

from my heart,

loudly, clearly.

I listen to inner truth.

Wisdom gained

through epiphany

that no one,

not even him,

can catch that grenade

while wandering through

personal minefields

battling demons of their own.

My first step towards healing.

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