More bits, more pieces. Absorb all the noise you can when you turn the switches on and off the clinking of glasses when the chains of the swing move back and forth when the clock ticks the sound of rain drops beating down I write I dream but don't sleep yet I keep waking up I want to fall asleep without actually falling asleep the chair is empty the posters have fallen down not taken down they were immobile for so long now they move the wall paint has faded the phone refuses to get charged and the fan has decided to spin slower than before. the adamant door doesn't close the cupboards are wide open just like my eyes my fingers hit the keyboard but words aren't born just erased. deleted. the screen stares back at me as I wink the milk tastes so sad with a sad- flavoured slice of bread cheese wants to stay away...
Real and imaginary - art by Luro I was transported to another world to another realm days don't preceed nights here I was there but not fully "there" a piece of me was here but the remaining pieces were elsewhere travelling through the metaphysical space I knew about what "otherworldliness" meant but it sounded too good to be true, or too bad to be false I couldn't decide so I didn't take sides didn't want to. incoherent mutterings tickling my ears My body— still but not all that still Between freezing and melting into nightmares into dreams abounding with hallucinations ethereal but not so ethereal stages of sleep paralysis my supine self was going through shuddering and shuddering involuntary movements had a hold on me I wasn't sure which world I was in the real or the unreal It was hard to differentiate no sense of time or space no sense of "self"...
You're here You've always been here Yet, you was away You were good at it, weren't you? At hiding. And they were good at seeking. Yes, they wanted you to hide So far, where the eyes couldn't see Where hands couldn't reach Where legs couldn't walk to But they caught you, didn't they? So expeditiously because they wanted to. That was their mission To keep you on the run so that they could catch you before you could ever catch them. You're no runner. You never were one. Yet you had to learn to run fast You didn't know what "slow" meant because, when it came to hiding you couldn't take chances You wanted to stay hidden because it was almost as if you were under the obligation to stay hidden. Out of sight but were you able to stay out of others' minds? Every place you went to, Every spot you hid in was under surveillance Tag! You're not "it" Tag! You...
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