Writing Prompt
STORY STARTER
A Thousand Nights in One Day
Write a story or poem with this as the title
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A Thousand Nights In One Day
This day was all. All I ever needed.
The culmination of a lifetime.
A lifetime of hopes and wishes cast up to the moon.
All at once came rushing toward me. Knocking me off of my feet.
Just the sight of you, winding me.
Reaching out to catch my breath.
Exhaled and gone.
This day was a thousand nights wound up.
Lived and remembered.
Loved and lost.
Would I change it?
Never....
A Thousand Nights in One Day
Don’t think I don’t think,
One last bit,
How much I can’t think,
Without thinking about you.
These last thousand nights,
I’ve spent talking to the moon,
In hopes that she’ll see you sooner,
then I’ll ever get to.
That night we didn’t say much,
In fear that we’d say something way too soon.
Ten years have passed, and I’m still feeling blue.
Every day feels like a thousand nights.
A thousand nig...
A thousand nights in one day
I feel I have lived.
An old soul resides within.
Like a lone bird,
mind cast sail in the winds.
Again and again-replaying my old sin.
The sin of not loving myself,
Not believing in myself.
Something that I wish for,
Every other child.
But Now,
Time to cut the play.
As I dream a thousand dreams,
sad, forlorn. Serpentine.
As i’ve died thousands of times in one day,
My heart- bends,shakes, doesn...
A Thousand Nights in One Day
“Breakfast.”
The sliver of light was mirage, a hallucination in an obsidian existence. A distant clang of metal remedied the world to raven feathers and coal dust
The familiar darkness stretched for hours, filling my lungs, my heart.
The manacles were wrapped forever-too-tight and my arms ached from where they were pinned above my head.
The cell was dark
heartstoppingdark...
Longer living
Only 24 hours to live
Only 24 hours to die
So tell me what will you give?
To save your own life?
Nights continue to blur
Days become a night
My words beginning to slur
No longer putting up a fight
Let my day just end
Let these night be a thing of the past
Because I will no longer pretend
That this night is not last...
A Thousand Times
The strenuous start of the day accumulates my whole body with dread. My eye lids push their way open giving my eyes a few short moments to accustom to the intense brightness of the day. Even though, my room is much darker than you would expect for a summer’s morning.
I would say that when finally fully awake, I begin to realise what the day marks. But I never sleep deep enough to have any contro...
A Thousand Nights in One Day
They knew she wouldn’t last till morning. When she’d got the diagnosis last year, she’d chosen a time to die. There was no cure. No hope. Only time.
Her loved ones gave her every experience they could in the months that followed. They travelled and celebrated life, the sadness never too far behind them. But M had made peace with her fate.
This was her last night. During the day, her parents an...
A thousand nights in one day
I wake up every day hoping it will be better
But today something or someone is changing
I hope it’s me but it’s you
You’ve changed
I’ve changed
You agree to go back and do it again
I just want to be able to live with myself
I say yes While thinking no
But I’ve got a feel
I want to go
We have dinner
We see a movie
We go to a park
We wander the city
We just talk
These are things I’ve wanted ...