my hands shake, the pen clutched in one squeezed tightly.
i put useless, meaningless words onto paper.
wrong,
wrong,
wrong.
black ink tears escape from my eyes, speech in size twelve times new roman spilling from my mouth.
my speech is sometimes slurred, sometimes accented. it is simply words. interpret it how you'd like.
my pen is gripped tighter, tighter, between my cream-colored paper hands.
do not speak, they said, for you will only bring chaos to others.
and yet here i sit, size twenty-four georgia spilling from my lips, and red ink tears sliding down my cheeks.
the pen is dropped, dropped far below.
and me and my size forty-seven cambria dialogue are left alone, silently drowning in my own words.
YOU ARE READING
cadence
Conto[small stories] ca•dence /kādns/ noun a sequence of notes or chords compromising the close of a musical phrase. the final cadences of the song swept a bittersweet taint through its waters.
