Prompt: How do you feel, on this first day, in your mind? In your body? In your heart? In your soul?
my mind
clutches the steering wheel
driving me round the bend
drifting in the silence
wheel spinning through the noise
my body
strums pain with its fingers
playing a tune of revenge
I want to call truce
but the olive branch is broken
my heart
expands and contracts
like billows fanning flames
of gratitude and heartache
laughter and sadness
my soul
soars and dives
enraptured by the climb
exhilarated by the fall
until splattered across the ground