The pain goes deeper May 28, 2024
She hurt herself dismounting, a tragedy she caught on video,
haunting images of pain that go beyond the physical discomfort.
Whatever goes on in her life, this served as her refuge, a
place she can return to where the outside world does not intrude, and on this
day (after things went well for her last
time) disaster struck, a moment when she nearly fell out of the saddle then on
top of this ,her coming down too hard on an already injured leg, forcing her
trainer to bring over something so she could sit on, to wait for the pain to
subside long enough for her to hobble to her car for the depressing ride home.
The silhouette of her seated and the pain so potent, I could
almost feel what she felt though the deeper injury comes to that part of her
that wonders what she did to have fate do this to her, and drawing back slightly
-- will she be able to climb back into the saddle again.
Is the injury that bad? Will she be brave enough to chance
it again.
Can she endure the threat to this one slim avenue to
pleasure at a time when the rest of her life seems to have once again crumbled
This painting the age-old portrait that life is unfair,
stealing those things you consider most precious at a time when you need the
most and reshaping the shadows that haunt those early morning hours in our
lives.
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