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The impact of a hammer on your thumb

despite the sign
"No peddlers here"
a woman rang at my door
"I only want to ask you just one simple question"

normally I would say
'No"
'I don't socialize with interviewers'
I am never the reason
they will have a rise
of completed inquiries
usually I tell them polite
the right thing to do
from my kind of view
'Go''

however
somehow
today
this woman
looked right inside of me
telling
with her sparkling eyes
"No
YOU should go for this"

I have a survey called
"the impact of a hammer however not on a brad …"
and she waited briefly
while I was thinking
"is this happening"
"this is really weird"
asking a question that dumb

then
she finished her line
" but on your thumb"

after listening
and realizing
what she said
intuitively I thought
"No way"
I wanted to decline
my cooperation to this survey

however
somehow
today
this woman
looked right inside of me
telling
with her sparkling eyes
"Let me continue,
'You know I am not mad'

"Let me please surprise YOU"

I asked her
"What is this all about? "

"Later"
she said completing her sentence
"for the sake of this survey
I have to ask you first"

"Would you please describe to me
the feeling
just after your thumb
has been beaten
by a hammer? "

Now I knew
for sure
no more questions I would answer
not even a few
this woman
with her sparkling eyes
is really crazy.
how do I get rid of this her.

she was persistent
she explained
what the survey was really about
and I found out she wasn't
telling a "trained" story

"a hammer can hit you
or someone else
and it might look the same
it is not the hitting
causing the difference
it is that feeling of yours
which is
of course the reason
for feeling and dealing
your way with your pain"

somehow
today
this woman
looked right inside of me
telling
with her sparkling eyes

" Now you know
all the how's and why's
you are obliged to yourself
to finds ways
to recover from your pain
your life will never be the same
again'

she was a wise woman
telling me
what a fool I was
for a short
but allowed
amount of time

Or not?
I was wise enough
to answer the door
and find out more….

©Ellie Daphne van Stralen 2012.

poem by Ellie Daphne van Stralen
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