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Let it roar
Show Some Skin | Thursday, March 21, 2019
Let it roar.
The fire within me burns.
It is alive and breathing
It flickers, feeding of the gray and heavy air.
It grows in my lungs
My veins reaching out, gasping for air.
They contract and constrict with every flicker
Yelling out.
It spreads upwards, up my trachea.
You see, it is sneaky, the fire.
It creeps behind and into my heart.
Takes my dainty heart within its hot, red hands.
My heart burns, aching and quivering,
Like a child in the hands of their abuser.
The fire rips my heart out, discards it
As if my heart is weightless … worthless … lifeless.
I’m lifeless.
My heart can no longer palpitate. It shrivels
And piece by piece, tissue by tissue,
Sheds off the debris.
The fire roars
Still with hunger for my life, my happiness.
It’s taken my heart
What else could it take?
It creeps back into my head.
Dancing its way into my ear
And it continues to dance its red dance
As it molests my mind.
My mind.
The last living piece of me.
The only part of me that keeps me sane.
All I have, now it is all I have.
But with just one spark,
One flicker, one droplet,
Of the gray and heavy air
And it gives in, my heart gives in.
I give in.
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The views expressed in this column are those of the author and not necessarily those of The Observer.
