Sometimes it's hard to imagine the sheer scale of the You that I once knew,
Before your world became so small and mine grew to be so big. I remember it well, the vast expanse of your love. The timeless, bottomless stories you wove around my head, borne of threads collected from a thousand places and a thousand different hearts, and sewn into mine like a beautiful, colourful reminder of my very own Origin Story. But it was you, in all your vastness, who taught me to build cities And continents And oceans And to fill lakes with my experiences Let rivers flow with all my most joyous memories To stack mountains up and cap them with starlit snowflakes of friendship and love and laughter To add gold and silver threads to my very own tapestry. But then a sickness wrapped in aged bones Came rolling in Like a thick damp fog over a turquoise ocean And put up his walls around you And built his ramparts high into the skies Closed the city gates against the plague of happiness and freedom Drawing heavy, motheaten curtains across your horizons So you could not see The world you had created And shown to me And now I see the fairytales Were wrong all along Old Father Time is not a kindly wizened wizard But a grotesque narcissist of a man Rotund belly swollen with all the time he has stolen The opportunities theived from your bowl Leaving you to starve slowly in his shadow. I was enveloped by your geography. Before him and now and your new world order, where all you talk about is Moira and the plums and what time the antique market opens on Sunday. Oh how we would mock monotony, with its routine You used to loathe routine. Now you are crippled by it, incapable of seeing the world in any way other than self-inflicted monotony. Oh mother, how I long for your infinity to return to you.
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AuthorEllie has been writing her whole life - journals, poems, short stories, scripts... allowing words to flow has been a constant cathartic process for her. This blog is an outlet for her writing, no more, no less. Archives
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