Embrace Your Curves

Even with
Persistence
Deliberate care
Pressure
and prescience

Pendulous motion
A solid iron
Smoothing
Your rough nap

The edges
Re-curl
Recoil from
Striving

Away from
Your center
Weighted ballast
Those corners
Threaten, disturb your
Effortful peace

But then
Who says?
Who ever said?
Why would you believe?
You are supposed to

Lie – flat
© Amanda Reilly Sayer

10 thoughts on “Embrace Your Curves”

Essentially true.Love it…

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areilly88 on April 8, 2019 at 2:43 pm said:

Thank you! So glad you stopped by and enjoyed this piece (probably at least a little bit influenced by my recent binge watch of The Handmaid’s Tale).

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- PePa. The Sketches of Life on April 8, 2019 at 2:52 pm said:
  
  I think I should watch that though quite lately withdrawn from Television.
  
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- areilly88 on April 8, 2019 at 3:00 pm said:
  
  I’m not a big TV person either, but I was recently waylaid by illness and tuned in. So well done – difficult to watch, but so important.
  
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- PePa. The Sketches of Life on April 8, 2019 at 3:14 pm said:
  
  Ooooh nooo am sorry.I pray you are better now?I thank God something good came out of it after all.
  
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- PePa. The Sketches of Life on April 8, 2019 at 2:56 pm said:
  
  That was some good work.
  
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This one is really deep and I had to read it several times in order for me to fully appreciate what you wrote. Wow! I will embrace my curves and everything that entails!! Beautifully penned!! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

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areilly88 on April 8, 2019 at 2:58 pm said:

Thank you AmyRose! I’m glad you reached into the layers. This poem started as a way of talking about how grief bubbles up even long after you’ve “made peace” or overcome a particular stage of dealing with challenge. And then it became about so much more, including the idea (I hope), that we can embrace everything…that life is complicated (neither all joy or sorrow) and certainly never perfect. Why should we spend so much energy on trying to be or feel a certain way when we can instead allow and harness the power of what is?

Does this make sense?

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- AmyRose🌹 on April 8, 2019 at 3:11 pm said:
  
  Oh my goodness, yes it makes sense. And now after your added explanation, I see and feel even more. I attempt to Flow through the ups and downs, the ins and outs, the highs and lows. I attempt to become flexible so as all What IS, just exists as IS. Your thoughts are so deep! Sounds to me you have quite a lot of “experience” that you poured into this poem. Absolutely stunning!!
  
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- Paul Sunstone on April 9, 2019 at 5:19 pm said:
  
  That makes so much sense indeed, Amanda!
  
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