Laurie Baron and I have been facilitating a writing group at Harbor House for the last couple years (even for a time over Zoom during the pandemic!), and we’d like to introduce a new voice to Poetry Corner – one of the women we’ve been writing with during June – Cyd Slone. Cyd has a Writer’s Statement to introduce her poem. Thank you Cyd, and thank you to all the women who entrust our circle with their words, their imaginations and their stories. ~Rhonda Edgington
“I am so excited to be able to share with everyone. My name is Cyd, I’m 32 years old and the mother of 5 wonderful children. I recently started my new life and my journey on the road to recovery. To me, this poem describes how I felt leaving behind so many people I cared for in their own suffering while I moved on to grow and change. Please check out some of my other poetry (God’s Mirror) on my youtube channel Cynthia Slone.”
It was the only chance I had to find you.
You said it yourself, you said it too.
Those places, those things, the only things
that we knew.
It was the only chance I had to find you.
I asked, how could I leave things this way?
I knew you would say that I could not stay
but it was the only chance
I had to find you.
I couldn’t take you with me,
I had to leave you there.
We knew in our hearts that this
was not fair
God had a purpose, a plan for me,
I couldn’t stay shackled, I deserved
to break free.
Free from the hurting, the torment,
that life. I had to be ready to put up a fight.
I’m leaving now. My good-bye is true
even though this
was my only chance to find you.
Cyd Slone