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Forgot what I searched for to find heaven. But I know that at the age of seven I seized my mother’s phone and found a god. He led me to an arresting world with strings. Strings that swept your hair the way the wind does when your ego would reach the sparkling skies. They touched your heart no matter how heartless. I refused to blink because if I did I would miss a second of his gentle fingers gliding across the maple fretboard. And no sane person would want to miss that! Strings danced back and forth as he played a chord. Oh, his fingers grew sore, but calluses helped desensitize them from aches and pain. The instrument he mastered was waiting to call him master cause’ guitars love how he manipulates and makes them his slave. Strings begged for his touch, for sounds they could make. My eyes felt heavier than dense gym weights. I mustn’t stop gazing if I want to stay lost in heaven. So **** riveting! “School is tomorrow.” ****** I forgot.” “Give the phone back. Hmm, what are you watching?” “Heaven.” “What did you say?” “I said heaven.” Mom didn’t say anything afterward. A few hours came, she asked for the phone. I gave it to her, prepared my backpack. Maybe in a different universe. I would have proclaimed, “Don’t take the phone back.”
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Jan 8, 2022
Jan 8, 2022 at 4:34 PM UTC
Don't Take the Phone Back
Forgot what I searched for to find heaven. But I know that at the age of seven I seized my mother’s phone and found a god. He led me to an arresting world with strings. Strings that swept your hair the way the wind does when your ego would reach the sparkling skies. They touched your heart no matter how heartless. I refused to blink because if I did I would miss a second of his gentle fingers gliding across the maple fretboard. And no sane person would want to miss that! Strings danced back and forth as he played a chord. Oh, his fingers grew sore, but calluses helped desensitize them from aches and pain. The instrument he mastered was waiting to call him master cause’ guitars love how he manipulates and makes them his slave. Strings begged for his touch, for sounds they could make. My eyes felt heavier than dense gym weights. I mustn’t stop gazing if I want to stay lost in heaven. So **** riveting! “School is tomorrow.” ****** I forgot.” “Give the phone back. Hmm, what are you watching?” “Heaven.” “What did you say?” “I said heaven.” Mom didn’t say anything afterward. A few hours came, she asked for the phone. I gave it to her, prepared my backpack. Maybe in a different universe. I would have proclaimed, “Don’t take the phone back.”
My first encounter with the most remarkable instrument: the guitar.
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20/Gender Fluid/New York
Jan 8, 2022
Jan 8, 2022 at 4:34 PM UTC
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