Get up.
I can’t.
You can. Get up.
I’m too exhausted. Too defeated.
You breathe. You live. You’re not defeated.
How can I? I fall a thousand times.
Then get up a thousand and one.
Another breath
Somehow, my feet
underneath
I arise
again
for Colleen’s Weekly #Tanka Tuesday #Poetry Challenge No. 156, #Poet’sChoice
and dVerse Poets Quadrille #93: Spiritedย Poems (pubtended by De Jackson)
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Frank J. Tassone 
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