Tag: memory
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“WHO ARE YOU?”
I am Kiddo, I am Sez, I am Bread and Water, I am my mother’s child and my father’s daughter, I am mum to Tally and Reecey-Breecey, I am wife to the only other man who sees me, I am exhaustion personified, anxiety made flesh, I am a girl who has more than once toed…
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Limits
It’s true what they say, that the mind is the limit,That any battles outside it are conquered within it,But any battles inside it can’t be conquered without it,Impossible, still, when each synapse is knouted. Each lash, a thief of perception so deathly defiant,Makes all the small things turn into great giants,So how do you fight…
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Brain Storm
It’s raining inside my head. Pouring. I can feel each drop as it cascades through my mind forming translucent sheets of icy coldness, sharp as knives, that flood the echoes of my consciousness while a cackling clap of thunder drowns out every rational thought. Then a sudden bolt of lightning illuminates a cavern in the…
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Foreverie
Once upon the daylight blue, A longing was drawn in vivid hues, And sat lucid in her reverie, For times that she and he once knew. Painted on her memory’s eye, Thoughts flittered like a butterfly, They tickled at the brink of truth, And swaddled her mind in a dulcet lie. He no longer walks…
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Safe
My memory is forged from steel, An impenetrable shield, A fortified chamber of grey, And in it you lay, Hidden away, No-one but me has the key, And in my memory, Safe and strong, is where you belong, It’s where you’ll stay, Come fire, come thief, And come what may, None can steal you away,…
Serena Malcolm 