Amelioration

A·me·lio·ra·tion (noun): The act of making something better. Improvement.

Author’s Note:

I have suffered many tribulations in my life. This poem is a testament to being adopted, neglect, childhood sexual assault, PTSD, and no longer accepting the harm I’ve endured as who I am.


Amelioration 

Energy in moratorium 

Created by enthalpy

Forged by dulcet waves

Compelled into existence 

A gem is formed through millennia 

Wreathed in clod

Shunned from the land of the Hyperboreans

An attestant in vicissitude 

Effulgence in crepuscule 

Once spurned, superfluous, 

No longer commutable

Now inestimable

Venerated

Loved

Melissa Bolles

Melissa is a queer spiritualist based in Michigan who has a deep fondness for writing, divining, poetry and all things mercurial.

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