INERTIA

I was stasis

Solidified blood

Unguent and thick

I was raw

Chapped skin

Red and weeping

I wept all over

Outside and in

From my eyes ,

My skin

My hair and bones.

I was sorrow

Down to my marrow

I was the bulging blue varicose vein

Snaking its way through

Legs of milky white glass

I was inertia

Resistant against the gravitational pull.

I didn’t go down,

I didn’t go anywhere.

Static, stoic, wounded

Inert and weeping.

Now here I go,

Once more into the fray.