My loneliness was climbing the walls, threatening to break open the white ceiling,
Then you flew in through the window and set yourself ablaze like a fleeting feeling.
You knocked over the scented candles and wrapped yourself in the dusty curtains.
“All that has happened and lived through us will never again lie before us.”
My consciousness tripped over itself, it snuck under the bed like a frightened spider.
You spread the fire everywhere and it dripped poison, deadlier than that of a viper.
I dance the waltz of terror, looking for an escape, a single hope in this mayhem,
But my left eye gave out under the pressure, the blood was lost, all hope was faded.
There was no way out of that flaming hell, I could only choose to walk right through.
The faces of everyone I had ever met flew past me, except the one, except you.
So, I laid my wounded body on the floor as the room around me became amorphous.
“All that has happened and lived through us will never again lie before us.”
-JW
The Daily Writing of Jackie Wright 