Shot in the Arm

I saw the gunpowder

tilted into the barrel

I saw the bullet packed

I saw the hammer

cocked with thumb

I saw the barrel leveled

What I failed to grasp

was I could heal

I saw nothing changed

I saw the eyes

who pulled the shot

I saw hurt forgiven

Published by ElshaHawk

Elsha Hawk is a center-brained, imaginative, pragmatist who errs on the side of optimism. She is a writer, mom, teacher, wife, and go-getter. She has dabbled in ebooks, researched marketing and promotion of herself, joined social media, and written both solo and with a co-author Eddie-Joe Young. She won the short story contest, "Write to Win", in Writer's Journal and was published in the Nov/Dec 2009 issue. She also published a short story in Eclectic Flash in the April 2010 issue.

5. Poetry

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