SenseWrds Prompt: slate, timeless, snippets

how we learn
chalk scraps
of our regret
up on the wall
then wipe it off
to begin again
it was ever thus

gone

she would cling
to her mother's leg
for safety, shy child

she would cling
to her notebooks
on her way to class

she would cling
to her friends
to shield them

so as you cling to your cold metal
remember the cold bodies
who no longer cling to anything

#SenseWrds prompt 361 - different, hour, gratitude

you claimed
I did not care
but you were wrong
for I would
prostrate myself
on dusty ground
as seconds
turn to minutes
turn to months
to demonstrate
enduring thanks
for every moment
of every day
that you arranged
if I thought
the outcome
in any way
would change