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Challenge of the Month XVII: August
You somehow find yourself back in 2019, sitting next to Jeffrey Epstein on the plane before it lands and he's arrested. You know what's coming, but he can't know. Write the ambiance and conversation. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose. $100 purse to our favorite entry. Outstanding entries will be shared with our publishing partners.
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HELP

I always knew I was here for a reason

Maybe the reason was to be a cog

But I can’t get myself to a season

Where my life stays in this bog

I love too much

I feel too fiercely

I scare so such

I see so piercincinginly

I can’t give up

Though I’m ready to do so

Can’t make this up

Though I hate to fear, so

I need to make a move

I must make a change

I need to change my hooves

Although I’m scared to mange

It doesn’t matter

It doesn’t count

Feels like my life is over

Feels like such a small amount

I have SO much to give

I have SO much more to live

Yet health has been unkind to me

And it all feels like a grind to me

I had so much hope, so much talent

It’s trapped inside me now

Had so much mope, so little balane

I will finally take a bow, now.

All that I hope for

Is one audience member

Who knows that I meant more,

Who dares to remember

That my reality was the life that I lived for

I decided very late September

Years ago, who cares I love yore

And died fighting for in November

But I died, yes I know it’s a bore....

JUST please remember

The woman I was once known before.

Don’t forget me, don’t disremember

The woman of your folkolore this December.

For I was once like you, someone no one could remember.

It’s too bad that someone has to be gone

For them to be remembered,