Tag: poetry

Sometimes, it takes a few slaps of life lessons in the head and the truth about your limitations and shortcomings to really wake up. But today, it gets me thinking again of an instrument of solace that is writing. I write because

On one Friday afternoon, my mother and I went to the grocery store with the sense of everyday normalcy. I was casually scanning the snack aisle like I would often do until I see an elderly figure at the end of the cookies section that looked strangely familiar. With his thin figure and that signature…