The Creative Arts Therapist in Training says to the Audience (aka Witness), assuming there is one:

Erin Ryan Burdette
3 min readSep 10, 2023
Photo by Ron McClenny on Unsplash

Uh-huh.

My.. journey?

Right.

Excuse me.

Well, no.

I hear you.

It’s just —

The audacity,

really,

not based

on ability,

but luck,

circumstance

nothing much

to do with me,

actually.

Still, here we stand

In an unfair world

intersection of

“Where’s my home?”

and “I can no longer stay.”

Opposite hemispheres

contrasting sides

of existence

and experience

left and right

travel the equator

speed of light

along the way.

Crosswise

back and forth

corpus callosum

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Erin Ryan Burdette

Freelance writer of plays/short stories/poetry/narrative non-fiction; lover of humor, chocolate, pratfalls, my children (in no particular order..).