"
numb.
shivering.
purple blue fingertips.
quivering lips.
dizzy spells of spins.
i can feel my mind shutting
d
o
w
n
.
as if it, were a tangible thing
in the palm of my hand.
i watch,
as it begins, to switch
o f f
s l
o w
l y ,
then,
all at once
i can no longer grasp it,
hold it, anything.
it (everything)
has slipped through
my sweaty,
clumsy, careless fingers.
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***
My mind was brimming with questions.
And yet more than ever,
I wished everything were a dream,
So that I could wake up,
pretend I never saw him.
"
I came for the funeral...
Mum and dad didn't know...
...
I knew something about your past they wanted you to forget...they never had the right to keep it from you. To make you think it wasn't a big deal.
"
I can't remember what my brother said after that, because I couldn't quite remember how to breathe.
It seemed like such a straightforward thing to do before my chest felt constricted,
my chest weighed down, by some invisible boulder.
We do it all the time after all, don't we?
In,
o u t
in,
o u t
But then everything went really really, hazy
then really, r e a l l y D a R k ,
right before I, think, I
b L a C k e D
O u T
.
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Short Story[ "What if I found a way to express myself without ever having to actually talk? What if I could share my thoughts without ever having to speak them?" ] Sakina Resilense always seems to have so much to say, but never seems to be able to find the co...
