I get that “my eyes feel like they’ve been crying” sensation, even when they haven’t. My head aches and my lips can’t seem to absorb enough Vaseline. I’m hungry, but making a meal seems like a gigantic effort and it’s much easier just to sit here on the couch, absorbing all the silence along with the huff and puff of the heater.
It soothes me.
To just sit here and be still for a bit....."
"The sweat. The fall. The doubt. The belief. The sunrise. The trail. The pain. The end.
The sun was calling over the mountains like a siren to sailor’s death. The mountain called. I responded. Step by step, minute by minute, mile by mile, I endured the hill. Half way up the trail, I lost my footing and slipped down onto jagged rocks, cutting my hand and shin. I debated quitting. I mean, I had already completed a good amount of trail. What would it matter if I continued? Who would know? Who would care?..."
"We should write more letters,
and make more mixed CDs,
and ride our bikes around the block.
We should wave at our neighbors
and talk to our neighbors
and bake cookies for our neighbors and then go talk with them some more.
We should smell flowers on our walk to work...."
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