Self-compassion can play a big role in healing and freedom from a painful past…

ROAD RAGE                 

frozen in flight 
headlights full beam
bearing down on rabbit-me
helpless in rage 
impotency

but how could a child

protect a mother

from lashing tongue

of another

the truck long passed 

I scoop you up

press cheek to quivering fur

in ear’s velveteen 

whisper   whisper

their anguish is over

our torment too

now run rabbit run

I’ll run with you

the road is empty

horizon bright with dawn

I turn to fly

rabbit-me 

gone

First published in The Amphibian Literary and Art Journal, March 2025; part of debut poetry collection ‘Dear Planet’ to be published by Fidessa Literary later this year.