Florilegium Archive · Papercuts and Scribbles

February 2023 – The Sweetest Remedy

Poem inspired by The Sweetest Remedy by Jane Igharo

Spitting lies, 
and cheap lines,
offering both moral 
support and combative defense
with a fierceness most grown women 
don’t have.

Live for today and let tomorrow 
worry about itself.
Disguise her loneliness as something else -
sealed in DNA, 
rooted in the deepest parts of her.

It’s up to us 
to decide who we want to be.
Chaotic 
and simply 
perfect-
too sweet to let go.

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