Do you know how hard I’m trying to write this when I’m incapable of muttering a single sentence?
Do you ever just wonder why I keep scribbling nonsense each day as if I’m bringing myself the vengeance?
Have you ever been left alone with your thoughts for a moment too long, and the clarity gets as sharp as a sword?
Have you… This one’s too personal but I’ll ask anyway if you give me your word.
…promise?
Have you missed somebody with the force of a hundred waterfalls crashing down without compassion?
No, no… But have you missed someone more than any relative, any friend? As if their love was just a fraction,
A drop in the ocean compared to how parched your throat has been lately. It’s a desert.
I’m trapped in it – and nothing worldly that can be offered will make my poisoned mind avert.
Luckily, nothing lays seeds in my heart. Nothing grows in sinking sand. No saviors left in sight.
Only drought and unrequited lovers left alive. No one sleeps in this land as the nights are also snow white.
Have you missed somebody like this or am I hallucinating out of the malice?
If this is the Wonderland they promised, please do me a favor
And never wake Alice.
-JW
The Daily Writing of Jackie Wright 