It was all dark.
My mind was bleak and foggy,
tangled in cobwebs,
caked with years of undisturbed dust.
An apparition of my former self
glaring in the mirror.
Who was she?
I forgot.
Bigger than this.
Happier than this.
But I forgot.
She was worthy and pretty
despite it all.
Then, a spider crawled inside her ear.
Year after year, it spun its home,
each new entanglement
dulling her spark.
Pulling out the webs,
thick and gross,
sticking to my fingers,
clarity returns,
and the fog slowly ends.
But then again,
is there ever really clarity?
Or are all brains simply balls of webs?
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luces
Where light shines.
posts
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The Man. The Myth. The Legend.
I’ve never known a true man’s love,not from partners nor my father.And I’ve never known a gentle touchor a boy who isn’t botheredby my girlish delight at simple thingsand my love for sweets and flowers.Or my romantic side and sensitivityand my want to pass the hoursjust talking and feeling,loving and healing—learning of each other to…
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I Like Him
I like him.I don’t care if he’s just a friend.I don’t care if I have to pretend that he feels more for me than he ever will.I like him.His mind’s a lazy river,the surface slightly quivering as lilac petals drift soft and slow.Mine always races,taking me places I don’t want to go.So, I like him,for…
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Decorum
It all started when I sat on the bench. It wasn’t an unusual day. The sky was the same decadent shade of sherbet and ice as always after dinner—a glimmering, figure-friendly, visual dessert—and a group of incredibly chatty girls from the college on the next block was standing at the corner on my right, giddily…
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To Go Home
-1- Duh! Duh! Duh! Duh! Duh! “Whah! Huh?” Duh! Duh! Duh! Duh! Duh! What? Oh… Duh! Duh! Duh! Duh! Duh! “Hold on! I’m coming!” Groggy, irritable, and confused, I stood from the rickety, creaking rocking chair and moved through the pitch-blackness to the door, scolding myself for not leaving on a light. But who knew…
