The Moon
2022
By: Brittany Eldridge
Last year, I gripped onto the moon
Hoping my broken heart would heal soon
I laid under the stars
Trying to get a break from my scars
I listened to the water flowing down a creek
Only peace I would seek
I found everything missing in places unexpected
The hard lessons of grief, unaccepted
The poison of ancestral trauma flowing through my veins
I learned, but it wasn't worth the growing pains