Set Free
She drove away from the pizza place
joyful in the knowledge that she had been set free.
No dark cloud appeared.
She realized she was humming along,
tapping her foot to the beat.
As she waited for her pizza to go,
Bad Company played on the radio.
One day, she stopped to get a pizza
on her way home from work.
She felt a weight lifted and joy return.
When she awoke, she knelt and prayed
for the strength to forgive.
One night she dreamed of forgiveness
and knew it was a message from God.
She pondered taking her own life
because she thought she was forever broken.
She spent years in darkness and anger.
She was never the same; whenever she heard Bad Company
a dark cloud would descend upon her.
Afterwards, he drove her home
and left her broken upon her doorstep.
Bad Company played on the radio.
He assaulted her in the front seat of his Lincoln.
He asked if she wanted to go to a party
and she said yes because he seemed nice.
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The NaPoWriMo prompt today is to write a story in reverse. I couldn’t help but turn each line of this semi-autobiographical story into a verse.
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i read this forward and then backward and i honestly think doing it both ways helped me see this poem more clearly. it’s so honest, so raw, such a beautiful story of ugliness and triumphing despite it.
That was an interesting prompt, and you handled it so well!!
Thank you.
Wow! Really beautiful! Powerful testimony of what God can do. and great job with this prompt.
Thank you. I had to start with the first line, because I knew where I wanted to end up, but then I wrote from bottom to top. It was an interesting prompt, for sure.
Powerful!