The light reflecting of the cool surface of your grandfathers rusty clock, send panic through your insides, and terror through your bones. You know what the clock reads, even before glancing towards it. You're old friend depression as come to pay you a visit. All your thoughts run wild, when a thought crosses your mind. How long will he be staying, this time? Why has he come? Two of the questions you, yourself can't answer. It takes you a little longer this time, to cool yourself. But once you do you reach for a warm beverage for yourself, and allow yourself to wait. While waiting you can't help but notice a box of random tissues sitting on a table, right next to you. You stop for a moment. then finally have the explanation. While taking a sip from the beverage, you reach carefully for a tissue. Holding it firmly beneath your fingertips, the cool liquid of your tears begin running down your cheeks. You take one single glance left of you. The tears continue rolling down, though much harder. He's finally arrived.

The sunset belonging to cotton candy clouds smiled just above your head. The smells of autumn leaves and fresh pumpkin blessed your nostrils as gleaming green eyes smiled inside. Beautiful velvet hair, followed by a beautiful personality and blessed beauty stood in front of you. Blocking your path at first, till you realize there’s nowhere for you to go. Nowhere you were needed. You had all the time to spend here….with her. The time felt frozen and the current of the ocean seemed still. Her smile was the only thing your eyes seemed focused on. You’re mind now overrun with questions felt now empty and seemingly forgotten as the light pink of her lipstick gleamed under the glare of your eyes. Tears came down your cheeks in under a minute, and to your surprise, you didn’t feel one bit embarrassed or nervous now. The sight of her… standing right in front of you made the worlds circle one another. The breeze felt cooler, as the shine of the cotton candy clouds re-joyed. Spelling her name within in them, as she glared slowly up at the sky.

''Mom''

Blue eyes, sunny treasured waves, a locket, and a scent of peppermint, reminding me of magic. Long nights and sweet, chilly days, never made her flee. Wet air and storm clouds never cancel. Pumpkin summers, and a naked Christmas, spent dinning on chocolate bunnies, melted in white. White and red, blue, and pink cotton candy days we never could remember, clouded my memory of the flashes of red then blue, red then blue.

I never could remember till I bought you that silver treasure. The one you claimed was like a blizzard mixing with the hot warmth of your fragile little pinky finger. Black shadows swam across my blank, pale face, but for only a moment. Although it was a minute captured, your time was captured, forever. Now it says ‘‘Darling’’ on a rock so cold it chills me to the bone. Now all I’m left with is a bottle of your perfume, and a single peppermint coated in green and snow white, that you left behind.