PAD Challenge 3

Day 3

Prompt #1: Write a positive poem. Like how great writing a poem a day through November is.
Prompt #2: Write a negative poem. Like how un-great technological hiccups in November are.

I chose Prompt #2


January Is a Month You’d Consider Leaving


The days seem shorter inside me.
Everything is iced over in grief
and always there are layers.

Our conversations slow to mere breaths
no words, just plumes of steam
vanishing into thin, frigid air.

I can’t compete with the failing light
from your voracious heart
burning us both into nothing.

Something has left us.
Every droplet of joy has resolved
itself to sky. When will melt come?

How could anyone blame you
for escaping the coldest month
of the year?