Thursday, February 21, 2019

My dearly beloved shot me down...

It's the beating of my heart. The way I lie awake, playing with shadows slowly climbing up my wall. The gentle moonlight slipping through my window and the sound of a lonely car somewhere far away, where I long to be too, I think. It's the way I thought my restless wandering was over, that I'd found whatever I thought I had found, or wanted, or needed, and I started to collect my belongings. Build a home. Safe behind the comfort of these four walls and a closed door. Because as much as I tried or pretended or imagined myself as a part of all the people out there, I was still the one locking the door every night. Turning off the phone and blowing out the candles so no one knew I was home. Because I haven’t been very impressed lately. By people, or places. Or the way a few people said they loved me and then slowly changed their minds.