On Fire
Jan 31
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It’s lonely to be alone, but echos in the empty cave pierce my ears and it’s easier to hope and it’s always, always, quieter in the silence.
They ask me and I am fine, because truth unravels and what other answer could there possibly be.
I thought that running meant leaving, I forgot that the world isn’t flat and round and round we go.
It’s not time, and it’s not silence, and it’s not sleep, and it’s not distance, but I keep thinking that one day I will find the cure for cancer, I am naive like that.
Today I think I’ll eat some chocolate, maybe that will work.
He wants me gone, he always did, and they always will, and fire smothers and burns.