“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”
– William Shakespeare
Bone speak
Not yet
Brittle
Yet perhaps
A bit of a rattle
De temps en temps
Where I have lain
Broken
In the past
*
That speeding car
Stopping in the back
Of my own
Fracturing C2
The axis
Of my revolving
Kindly you didn’t
Sever spinal connections
*
So many years ago
Even a scan doesn’t
Find a trace of you
Yet the coldest wind
Tightens its grip
Rappel de mon cou
Of what might
Have been
*
The only evidence
Lies buried beneath
Long muddy brown locks
Burr holes, for traction
A puzzle for future
Anthropologists
Pas du tout
My ashes will not
Be found
*
Bisous,
Léa
poetry, photos and musings oh my! 
Lea this is shuddery! Very well written, it got right to my bones!
You had a very narrow escape from permanent injury by the sound of things.
Love
Christine xx
Christine, you are so right. I spent 8 weeks in traction and another two months in a four-poster brace but here I am. I was one of the lucky ones. I saw a blog that gives writing “sparks” and it said to write about bones so that is what came out. 🙂
Love,
Lea
xxx
We have so much hidden inside us to write about. We simply need a prompt! And sometimes we dont even need that! I dont know where some of mine come from! 🙂 xx
Absolutely Christine! Many of mine, come from deep within and force me to reconcile with the more difficult things. The things that wouldn’t stay repressed. The thing I learned from that was the more I fought it coming out the more relieved I was when I had it in front of me instead of eating me from inside. 🙂 xxx
F***, Lea! I knew you’d been really unwell, but had no idea that you had been in a serious car crash. I have some idea of the pain you went through, mainly because of my own experience with pain, but I’ve never been in traction or had broken bones. We are so lucky to still have you with us xoxo
Please forgive me Carly. That accident was many years ago and I recovered very well with the occasional issue of cold air on the neck.
In March was totally different, emergency surgery and some complications that are being quite stubborn to heal.
Exactly Lea, 🙂 xx
🙂 xxx
Oh my! Excellent. Love the title too.
Thanks Terah! I do value your opinion. Now off to see what you are up to. 🙂