Despair

she held her life in her hands

as if it were a  hot potato

bruised

skin scorched

blackened

burning to touch

up

 down

up

 down

bouncing

first-hop

in the grip of hysteria

saddened

maddened

by despair

rage

caged

bird sings

no one hears

no one cares

no one fears

for her life 

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Cher Corbin is a mother of two, a scientist and a silver award winner in Photography at the National Independence Festival of Creative Arts (NIFCA). In 2011, she received two silver medals in Literary Arts in NIFCA for her prose pieces, “Intervention” and “The Pink Slip”. In 2012, she won NIFCA awards for her writing and in the Fine Arts category for her watercolour, “Bridge at the Hole”. Cher is presently working on two novellas, Silvered Mirrors and The Pink Slip.