Some Days Split Your Life In Two

from my memoir in verse

Some days
Split your life in two.

The day you are evicted
Is one of those days.

Sometimes looking back
After your happier ending.
You will say
Once upon a time.
I was evicted.

The word time
Comes from a word
Meaning divide.

So.
Once upon a divide.

Every day
Is a dividing line.
Between what you were.
And what you will be.

But some days
So much more so.
A split.
Not just a divide.

The day you are evicted
Is one of those
Once upon a divide days.

Not the most obvious beginning
For a fairy tale.
But a fairy tale nevertheless.

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Days that split your life
In two
Are the thin line between
Your before and after pictures.
And if you put that thin line
Under a microscope
You can see
Etched in fine print
It says:

Don’t waste a crisis.
And you didn’t.

So thank yourself.
Deep bow
To the you
Who had to plow through.
From the you
Who witnessed.

Some crisis
Split your whole self
And its life
Your life
In two.

xx

Beth