Curtains closed, lights off

Darkness reigns supreme

Slithering, silent and deadly

Depression creeps into the heart

Lonely woman paralyzed

Eyes ache, screen lights hurt

Gaze empty, head lolled back

Drained, hopeless

Life in monotony

Months circling, world evading

Brief moments of feeling

Dragged out by family

Caustic remarks

Hope leeched

Life in monotony

A trip, a moment, a vision

Excitement, p...

The seals have been printed across coral lines

Here I am sipping tea with the divine.

Why fuzzy images become a clearer vision.

I’m almost there, I can taste it, I can dream, feel, and be in such a time to see it unfold.

The way this world spins make me feel jaggered.

Yet you have me flattered.

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Breathe.

Did I forget to do that.

Even now these words might seem random

But in my mind it has its...

He touched her skin,

The color of milk chocolate

Ever so tenderly

And her lips seemed to beckon him forward

She touched his skin

The color of a full apricot

And his body seemed to scream

“I’m yours!”

They leaned in close

And teenage fantasies

Came into play

As their lips touched

They didn’t care

If it looked

Or felt

Or _was_ right

They didn’t care about tomorrow

Our last week

Or an hour ago

E...

I snuck a peek at him as his fingers brushed my hand.

So softly

Ever so softly

I looked over at him, hands gripping the wheel, blue eyes fixed on the road ahead.

So focused

Ever so focused

I gazed up at him as he talked to the guy at the counter.

“We want a large popcorn and an iced slushy.”

He turned towards me and caught my eye.

He smiled a little.

So slightly

Ever so slightly

I ...

‘Don’t believe until you see it.’

Is what I told myself

I shoved the truth up on a shelf

But now it is here

Leaving me in fear

The warm gold was shifting to cold teal

It was all becoming real...

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They knew the day would come —

And so did she.

The guiding timepost was around

that Wednesday, when a sudden

and neurotic shift

has started hitting her,

for no apparent reason.

While something else, with

quite a spicy twist, no less,

just started hitting fan.

She would refer to this

back in her memory —

again, again...

and then —

She would have liked to say

they would be "mi...

Of course there are the fantasies

The nagging wants in the back of the mind

Leave this place

Burn your bridges

You don’t need these people

This place

This hateful

Sick

Place

But survival is the most demanding instinct

And the world is against you

It is set up that way

I never thought of myself as one to get trapped

It was always my nightmare to be strangled by obligation

But it is all ...

It’s finally happening.

It’s all becoming real.

The things that everyone said was just me.

Just me overthinking,

Thinking the worst.

Constant negativity.

But this time the worst happened.

This time all my overthinking was worth it.

Me being negative finally paid off.

And all those optimistic losers never saw it coming....

I laughed,

I mocked,

I grinned,

I scoffed,

I knew,

These palmists are of charlatans, of fakes,

To lose my job, my friends, my love, my life,

This surely will not come to pass for truth.

Her wizened eyes which held my gaze could not,

By sight or thought compel these slights to come.

The first call came, I grabbed my phone to see,

It was my boss who told to me, their need

of me was lost. A fluke, c...