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Written by: Saira Uttamchandani
When I saw you for the first time There was an Instant connection - a ruby thread Twisting, dancing, craning, looping Around our wrists We both stole a glance and shook it off, a nuisance, a pesky fly Ignoring its promising Golden glow and whispers of a better time Time flowed by like a rushing river Weathering away at my Soul Conscience Heart Everything was numb with ice when it could have been blanketed with warmth With you But I held on Until reality dealt out a final blow My anchor in the storm became my assailant Struck out with a saber of slander A saccharine smile disguising a spiteful soul The carefree facade melted off my face And my blinding agony broke free But then you were there, with a fretting frown A furrowed brow And concern rippling across your face As you bent down and we embraced Your eyes wide with worry, sparkling with tears of empathy And we both cried Over lost memories and wasted time Our faces drenched with regret And the fateful ruby thread weaved a gossamer web between us That may never be untangled.
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By an Anonymous Submitter It was only a dream.
But it felt so real. It felt as if my soul left my body leaving me alone, stranded in the deep dark, black hole of my thoughts. It felt as if the woman who my mother raised me to be was now a shell I could only hide under & allow me to pretend I was a gift, not a curse. It felt as if time was ticking away my mere existence and my life was slowly being chipped away. It felt numb and raw, like there was nothing left of me except for my mangled fragments of consciousness. It felt as if I wasn't real - that instead I was a mere piece of someone else I could feel the tremors of my heart as I plummeted down that cliff - oh, that terrible cliff. I awoke, covered in sweat and tears & couldn't shake the feeling that maybe it wasn't a dream. but I like to tell myself that it was. |
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