A Painful Day
Storytelling Poem About Truth
2 min readJun 26, 2018
The day my adventure began
was a painful day, after a fierce
torrent of pain. I was burying
my dog in the backyard, all alone.
When I uncovered a baby bottle
in a plastic bag, but covered in
cracked dirt nonetheless, childlike
curiosity was piqued. But the note
inside declared if you’re reading this,