On Returning From Leave
By Rebekah Childers
maybe she doesn’t have the fire today.
maybe she couldn’t always persist.
maybe the damage wasn’t
done
because she took a day, a week,
a year off,
but because
she believed
she had to carry it all the time.
because they told her she had to.
because they didn’t.
wouldn’t.
I paid ten dollars
for a garden hose
and it leaked the first time I used it.
pay the extra money
next time, I say,
for skin that can hold the pressure.
but know,
eventually,
the rainy season will still come around.
Rebekah Guerry Childers is a poet and theologian from Nashville, TN. you can find her work on Instagram @rebekahchilderswrites.
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