dailyprompt – teachquelle

night or morning

Are you more of a night or morning person?

These days it is both.

Making up time past spent

Taking up space in the rooms I’m in.

Planning and setting goals for prosperity

While I clench at my tightened chest

Filled with anxiety.

Late nights orchestrating and motivating my progeny,

Early mornings rising to beat the sun to earn a salary.

That meets my needs, and some wants,

Supplements for every expense,

From edge control, insoles and AP Exam fees,

Palpitations and flutters brings me back to loving on me.

Making sure I am the first one they see.

BoomerCrat

Invent a holiday! Explain how and why everyone should celebrate.

Two years from now, to what extent have Boomer Democrats failed millennials, deluded Gen z, and polarized Gen Alpha; socially, economically and politically.

The title of your thesis in the comments is the holiday I will invent.

Dr. Collier

What will your life be like in three years?

I will be defending my thesis and accepting a position at a top HBCU.

arrived

What are your top ten favorite movies?

My therapist says I’ve arrived.

Think I’ll take that seriously.

It’s sad when I make tears well up in her eyes,

When I spill all that’s inside;

Right in front on that couch.

Started to twitch and fidget when I talked about her.

Felt those same physical symptoms when I spoke about him.

She says it’s interesting that you both bring out the dark in me.

But it’s just a shadow,

Spent a long time with me.

Remembering that I am light

despite all that’s happened to me.

Played with my inner child,

Filled coloring pages

Read so meany spreads

Shuffled on the floor, in my car, for those who are special who were once a part

Of my healing.

So now that I’m healed,

She says to visualize,

The life that I actually like,

Well, I happen to be living today.

So right now my top ten favorite movies are:

Gladiator
Legends of the Fall
The Color Purple
I’m gonna get you sucka
Waterboy
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Star Wars Episode 1-3
101 Dalmatians
The Lion King
Friday

iykyk

On what subject(s) are you an authority?

The amount of fear and anxiety I’ve felt being a single mother has deeply impacted my mental health. Enduring cycles of abuse at this level of independence and isolation has put me on a path of hyper vigilance that is barely paved yet often frequented. Yet this path is so fertile, that weeds and grass hurry to fill the cracks. Imaging this experience at a lower socioeconomic level mirrors my childhood. All the limitations and sacrifices made for the sake of a “better life” makes me an authority.