Jul 2021
She watched them through their window. Through their window her mind slowly slipped away. Two lifeless bodies bleeding her capacity for reason dry.
From her rough wooden table watching them below. Through a soiled pane of glass that kept her isolated from the icy air blown in from the harbour. She could see the vapour from their breath freeze as they talked but couldn’t come to terms with any physical condition that could create such a phenomenon.
But they move. And when they move she can sense her legs walking upon an existential collision course with an unnecessary fate. Soon it will pick her up and carry her long abandoned soul far away.
Reality eludes her more every day as she drifts farther away from shore. And the waters stirring below are a cauldron of empty waves thrashing upon the worn wooden planks at her feet. Black as oil it seeps through the cracks making thinly veiled threats of justice as it begins to collect beneath. She knows right from wrong but some actions are so deviant they could not possibly be undone.
She certainly felt as though she were lifting the weight of eternity as she finally slipped over the edge of sanity. And as the icy water filled her lungs she stared into that single pane of glass for the last time. Two bodies below with breath frozen as they talked, about the strange dark figure looming in the window above.
From her rough wooden table watching them below. Through a soiled pane of glass that kept her isolated from the icy air blown in from the harbour. She could see the vapour from their breath freeze as they talked but couldn’t come to terms with any physical condition that could create such a phenomenon.
But they move. And when they move she can sense her legs walking upon an existential collision course with an unnecessary fate. Soon it will pick her up and carry her long abandoned soul far away.
Reality eludes her more every day as she drifts farther away from shore. And the waters stirring below are a cauldron of empty waves thrashing upon the worn wooden planks at her feet. Black as oil it seeps through the cracks making thinly veiled threats of justice as it begins to collect beneath. She knows right from wrong but some actions are so deviant they could not possibly be undone.
She certainly felt as though she were lifting the weight of eternity as she finally slipped over the edge of sanity. And as the icy water filled her lungs she stared into that single pane of glass for the last time. Two bodies below with breath frozen as they talked, about the strange dark figure looming in the window above.
