Day 1

Prompt: First line repeats at the start of each stanza

Tight lipped conversations
Loud enough
To silence a crying babe
Starving of compassion
As eyes spoke passionately

Tight lipped conversations
Muted the deafening Television
Screaming motivation
As if to taunt the conflict
Simmering in the room
Breaking everything in it's wake

Tight lipped conversations
Taunted the constricted hearts
Wanting to jump out
Of the nicely ironed clothes
And attack each other like cats

Tight lipped conversations
Spilled tea on a newly painted portrait
As the babe lurched on the mother's nipple
And sucked the remaining hostility
Till it's belly stood , protruding
Like a ball of misery