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28 Days
28 days....
every 28 days....
Everything inside of me
seeps...and weeps...in torrents
of crimson emotion spilling over
the edge of my womb...
Ripping me like pages from a book
that was never read...
As my cervix folds in on itself
twisting my essence into a knotted
existence...of swollenness and irritability
As I become a pain filled tsunami
releasing my rage in wave after painful
wave....of menstrual cramps
I stagger to the bathroom snatching open
the medicine cabinet
pleading with the heavens
To please have left me just 4 extra strength
Midol please....okay there are 3...and let's
add a 400 mg Tylenol and I think I can be pain
free for at least....4 hours.
Just long enough for me to slide into my car
ease into the grocery store and buy another
bottle of Midol on sale with my $1.50 coupon.
Somehow...I make it home after spazzing out
on the guy at the counter...
we usually joke but today isn't the day to ask me
If I'm feeling well.
I mean
You DID just see me stagger in your store with my
Dread Locks all over my head and
You DID just see me
nearly pass out after some little
kid ran right into my stomach
in isle 9...in fact I saw you
grab the kid and take him to his Mother...
(which by the way) Saved his freaking life!
So now you wanna ask me...how I am feeling
REALLY...
My STOMACH HURTS! I hiss as I throw my Midol
and extra absorbants up on the counter....
My eyes bulging from my face ....my complexion
Nearing a steely grey at this point.
I think...he got the message.
Well,5 days from now... I will come
back and bring him a latte...
Till the next 28 days
Comes rolling around.
Ugh!
every 28 days....
Everything inside of me
seeps...and weeps...in torrents
of crimson emotion spilling over
the edge of my womb...
Ripping me like pages from a book
that was never read...
As my cervix folds in on itself
twisting my essence into a knotted
existence...of swollenness and irritability
As I become a pain filled tsunami
releasing my rage in wave after painful
wave....of menstrual cramps
I stagger to the bathroom snatching open
the medicine cabinet
pleading with the heavens
To please have left me just 4 extra strength
Midol please....okay there are 3...and let's
add a 400 mg Tylenol and I think I can be pain
free for at least....4 hours.
Just long enough for me to slide into my car
ease into the grocery store and buy another
bottle of Midol on sale with my $1.50 coupon.
Somehow...I make it home after spazzing out
on the guy at the counter...
we usually joke but today isn't the day to ask me
If I'm feeling well.
I mean
You DID just see me stagger in your store with my
Dread Locks all over my head and
You DID just see me
nearly pass out after some little
kid ran right into my stomach
in isle 9...in fact I saw you
grab the kid and take him to his Mother...
(which by the way) Saved his freaking life!
So now you wanna ask me...how I am feeling
REALLY...
My STOMACH HURTS! I hiss as I throw my Midol
and extra absorbants up on the counter....
My eyes bulging from my face ....my complexion
Nearing a steely grey at this point.
I think...he got the message.
Well,5 days from now... I will come
back and bring him a latte...
Till the next 28 days
Comes rolling around.
Ugh!
Published 21st Nov 2012
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21st Nov 2012 00:31am
21st Nov 2012 00:35am
Girl I wrote this because some of my friends in the office are going through it!
and this is how I feel when that time of the month hits me!
girl I am so mad at eve for eating that apple!
Fire
and this is how I feel when that time of the month hits me!
girl I am so mad at eve for eating that apple!
Fire
21st Nov 2012 00:36am
Ahhhh the struggles of being a woman. Such strong yet gentle creatures God has created. Great read!
21st Nov 2012 00:44am
Somedays I wish I could just step out side my body when that time comes around....
Thanks for reading!
Fire
Thanks for reading!
Fire
21st Nov 2012 2:38am
21st Nov 2012 2:52am
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL you are in rare one liner form today my friend!
LMAO!!! I hear ya
Fire
LMAO!!! I hear ya
Fire
21st Nov 2012 3:45am
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21st Nov 2012 4:05am
21st Nov 2012 9:29pm
I know me too sweety I am thankful I am not allergic to those pills if so I would probably have jumped off the edge of my couch by now!
LOL
Fire
LOL
Fire
21st Nov 2012 10:21am
CONSTANT battling... Daaamn, Firebird. I admire your honesty soul sister!
21st Nov 2012 9:28pm
gotta tell the truth man!
Plus this gives men an insight on what we REALLY feel like... I mean can you imagine being wounded on your arm and it WONT STOP BLEEDING for 5 days...
You'd be sick ta death! LOL
Fire
Plus this gives men an insight on what we REALLY feel like... I mean can you imagine being wounded on your arm and it WONT STOP BLEEDING for 5 days...
You'd be sick ta death! LOL
Fire
23rd Nov 2012 4:11pm
A man might be sick to death from gangrene from a wound on the arm... but that same man would wear that wound so everyone is able to recognize it and be oh-so-proud. A wound that's visible to a man is like a tattoo. It's why we branded ourselves, even in the earliest times to modify, to change.
A woman's bleeding wound for 5 days isn't a battle-wound, it's a battleworld. That isn't "Oh, yeah, this hurts and if I get through this I'm a baaaad cat." That's... "Oh, goodbye world, Hello total immersion into agony." 'Cept as your piece shows, ain't no goodbye world... it's still there. No glory for it. Just insensitivity and bad jokes. No "Hey, look sisters, I suffered THIS much so I'm a gladiator." No... just ... "stay dignified".
I admire your spirit Ms. Rising Phoenix so I'll let you in a secret true men are supposed to keep quiet and you don't even have to waterboard me to get this one out: We make our wounds into trophies because then we don't feel beta, like babies for suffering. Because we can't ignore that pain like you women can. You ignore what's inside, outside, all around and get through the day and so when some mysognist says something reeeeal original and hilarious like "I don't trust anything that bleeds for 4 days and doesn't die." I ALWAYS have to fire back (and the more dudes are around me, the louder I get with this)
"Hey man, I just heard you say that you find warriors who are stronger than you, blessed with greater endurance and the ability to maintain silence over it to be ... untrustworthy. So, everyone who's strong and clear is a mystery to you? Wish you had better role models weakling."
If I was ever a woman it would've been a past life. So in this one I can only ... conjecture... but I suspect it isn't just the blood. It's the flood that's the worst. Respect to you, Ms. Phoenix for a real glimpse I might've missed!
A woman's bleeding wound for 5 days isn't a battle-wound, it's a battleworld. That isn't "Oh, yeah, this hurts and if I get through this I'm a baaaad cat." That's... "Oh, goodbye world, Hello total immersion into agony." 'Cept as your piece shows, ain't no goodbye world... it's still there. No glory for it. Just insensitivity and bad jokes. No "Hey, look sisters, I suffered THIS much so I'm a gladiator." No... just ... "stay dignified".
I admire your spirit Ms. Rising Phoenix so I'll let you in a secret true men are supposed to keep quiet and you don't even have to waterboard me to get this one out: We make our wounds into trophies because then we don't feel beta, like babies for suffering. Because we can't ignore that pain like you women can. You ignore what's inside, outside, all around and get through the day and so when some mysognist says something reeeeal original and hilarious like "I don't trust anything that bleeds for 4 days and doesn't die." I ALWAYS have to fire back (and the more dudes are around me, the louder I get with this)
"Hey man, I just heard you say that you find warriors who are stronger than you, blessed with greater endurance and the ability to maintain silence over it to be ... untrustworthy. So, everyone who's strong and clear is a mystery to you? Wish you had better role models weakling."
If I was ever a woman it would've been a past life. So in this one I can only ... conjecture... but I suspect it isn't just the blood. It's the flood that's the worst. Respect to you, Ms. Phoenix for a real glimpse I might've missed!
21st Nov 2012 10:43pm
WOW sweets, I understand and I feel you. Women do go through it. Great piece
22nd Jun 2015 1:26am
