A big choice.
Would it cost my Joy?
Won’t let it.
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Don’t let anything take your joy away. Here is a prose by Samuel that inspired me to write this. Read it for yourself:
About the Creator
L.I.E
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Let me be honest. I am finding this difficult. Now, I like a challenge, a stretch, a bit of an obstacle course. “Write about the decline of the British Empire in the form of a narrative poem in which your protagonist is an artichoke” I read, and flex my fingers. “Write a haiku to evoke the sensation of sibilance using only the first half of the alphabet.” “Well”, I think to myself, “this should be fun.” But “write about a system that isn’t working”? A system that isn’t working? Now? In 2026? ONE system? My favourite system that isn’t working? The sexiest system that isn’t working? The one giving me the most angst day to day? The one giving me the most existential dread? I am, as I say, finding this difficult. I will own that I have contemplated writing a thousand words on why the steady “all on” setting on my fairy lights is the EIGHTH of seven options which must be sequentially activated to get there, because that is a system that some fool came up with and it definitely doesn’t work, and now who is paying the price, eh? But how can I write about my fairy lights when…. When…. When….
By Hannah Moore3 days ago in Humans
Comments (5)
Bravo!
Simple yet powerful! You’re standing firm, refusing to let anything steal your joy. Love the strength in those few words!✨
Totally agree! We should never let anything steal our joy. Loved your poem!
Amen! 💪🏾🙏🏾🙌🏾
Does it take you away from God or draw you closer? God is our JOY