On Hiatus

On Hiatus

©2016 Susan Noyes Anderson

I'm on hiatus from my life

but not by choice.

Don't get me wrong, as my kids' mom,

I have a voice.

And yet autonomy for mommies

comes with strings attached.

I'd drop the sun on a dead run

for anyone I've hatched.

So I am off on an adventure

I would rather miss.

"Have child will travel" is my motto.

Service is my bliss.

But could there be more happy reasons?

We are overdue.

Enough of flash floods, fires, and famine.

Let's try something new!

For Poets United, theme of "absence."