They twist and turn, vicious and lovely, they play, and then they die; but just as you breathe air into them at long last, they live; red and orange, sometimes yellow, burning away; fierce and strong, don’t touch you’ll burn. They entrance me, their warmth calls me, breaking away the poorly stitched heart, burning the [...]
Innocently she flicks through recent mail, pausing to read the odd one, trashing half, moving on speedily; getting bored, she goes to throw them in the bin; lastly, quickly she skims through the rest; assuming it to be junk; and then her eyes stop. Linger on the one she dreads, the one she never thought [...]
The tap drips; echo, echo, echo, drip, drip, drip, it doesn’t stop, there is no end – the flood gate opened and so the tap drips; drip, drip, drip. My wide eyes water and spill silently; at least they don’t echo like the water flowing from the tap. They roll cautiously down my porcelain cheeks [...]
I am here again, the same time, a different day, just another one; my body aches from head to toe, nothing eases the pressure, only sleep, the sleep I fear. with an aching body, I bravely succumb yet again, to the sleep I fear, I fail to resist; you’re calling me in my sleep, I [...]
The walls close in, pushing me into a corner, the rough hands clasp at my throat and my heart weeps violently beautiful black ink spills and I give in to the powerful hold over me, fighting for nothing falling under the darkness ebbing into bleakness.
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