Very Truly Yours

Photo Credit Eve Hannah

I'm taking an online writing class this summer with teachers Robin Rice and Emily McDowell at https://www.bewhoyouare.com/ The writing prompts are pictures and we are free to write whatever we'd like to as inspired by the photo.

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The first time I saw you, there was blood and wet in your hair. You were assigned to me in that moment. I am yours. You will try to focus on my face and when you’re older you’ll point at me and laugh. You might give me a funny name like Dandan or Lou but your family will refer to me as your “imaginary friend” because they’ve lost their vision.

My palm will rest on your fevered head. I will touch your mother on the shoulder to get her attention when you’ve slipped away from her on the busy sidewalk. She’ll call it “mother’s intuition,” and I suppose that’s as good a name as any. You will have both joy and sadness. I can’t stop the world from happening to you, nor do I want to. That’s not the point. I will try my best to feel like hope. I am yours.