‘Fingers straining for tomorrow / Grappling with the edge…’
Fingers straining for tomorrow
Grappling for the edge
Yesterday keeps hold of my ankles
Pulls back
As I strain forward
Suspended over today
With my feet not touching the ground
You can check out all my poetry in my ‘Poetry by Cee’ list (— for some reason it glitches hugely when I try to embed this list as a link, so text link instead!)
Jessica Lynn’s March ‘Come Write With Me’
Originally published on Twitter and collected in this Micropoetry post on my blog, Dora Reads