Hello everyone;

I did say "haphazardly" participating in the April PAD Challenge. This is why day one is being posted after day two.
Day 1 prompt of "write an optimistic poem"

Not Dead Yet, Me

Is it really such a tragedy
that my sentences are raggedy
words tread together by similarity?
The conversation is still defiantly
expressions of me.

Is it really such a travesty
that I wander aimlessly?
When I can travel through time so easily
…our life history
…a life lived outrageously.

Is it really such a disparity
that I have forgotten the melody
of your name? Still there’s some clarity….
I know the feelings of family
and passions intensity.

Is it really such an indignity
that something once familiar is now a novelty.
Or that simple tasks escape me.
I still dance to life’s jamboree
and sing majestically.

Is it really such a finality
even as I become more absentee?
There is plenty of life in my legacy.
Don’t bother writing my eulogy,
when there’s still time to create a memory.

©2024 Delaina Miller

This is a question I have been getting lately. I have been writing. Kristin and I just published our first e-book for FINCA: Global Voices: A FINCA Uganda & Zambia Experiology. In the book you can find some of my favorite poems written for some of the FINCA clients we have met.

Publishing this e-book is a pretty big deal for us because 100% of the profits are going to FINCA.

We are super excited to have the book done and for sell!

Nonetheless, I am sure you do not come to this blog to read my ramblings as much as you come to read my poetry. So as a special treat here is a poem for a client that I decided not to include.