Flow Don't Go

 

FLOW DON’T GO

(A Spoken Word Piece)

The menopause roller-coaster—

I rise.

I fall.

Sometimes…

I don’t care at all.

Days roll by,

Hills become easier than mountains,

And then—

I’m in.

Able to Climb.

To get tired.

To beat.

To ache all over.

To don’t give a shit.

To rise.

To fall.

The roll-coaster keeps going.

Momentum waves.

Crashing.

Lifting.

Doubt.

Happiness.

Sadness.

Elation.

Freedom.

Trapped in my body—

All in one day.

To bleed—

Was a pattern I knew.

Trusted.

Over thirty-five years,

We ebbed.

We flowed.

We flowed.

I FLOODED

To stop—

A hormonal suicide.

A rapid roller-coaster ride.

They come.

They go.

The rise.

The fall.

And the doubt of it all.