Running Into RainDark clouds approaching As we turn down Indian Neck Road On our way to shopping malls Wal-Mart and Kentucky Fried Taco Bell Dark clouds overhead now A sudden silence… And then the beauty of drum-beat Pitter-patter symphony This infant storm without a Mother Emitting abrupt cries of light and thunder Crashing down and swallowing the car And all of uncivilized civilizationRunning Into Rain
She runs...“Where are you running to, Alice?”She runs...
She feels something pop in her knee cap, causing a grinding feeling, but she keeps running. She runs through endless gaps in trees, tripping over mole hills, rocks, and tree roots, a thousand years old.
There is this little voice; it pulses through the marrow of her bones.
Her eyes water as she swats away tree branches, out like arms in defense of whatever it is she’s running to. Her breathing is shallow and the pain her legs have been reduced to only a fuzzy murmur of discomfort.
But the voice in her brain is crystal clear, perfectly poise
Diagnosis DiscreditedWe are not the dollsDiagnosis Discredited
You make us seem Our innocence is empty Our frills mock the blood Caked like makeup on our faces We gave up trying
To make you believe we’re Absolutely fine because Despite what the sadit
Doctors tell you, they Cannot fix us We are not wind-up Toys that when a cog Goes a bit shotty you Can take apart and Replace—there is no Cure for this, don’t Even attempt to Understand Take a fumbling walk
In our tattered shoes And see for a breif moment A life without privilege A life wi
VirginiaA world forgotten in Sleep Cars Transcending silence Like a phantom echo as a dog barks Quiet thunder And the sky, a perpetual cloud A soft blue cheek against the sharp Splintered edges of trees As the wind eats me whole The house groans in distress My fingers ache with cold The whole world is asleep now Trapped in a soft gray cornea It slumbers in time To the lullaby of squealing scrap metal And a dozing wind chimeVirginia
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"Shutting away the boredom of everyday life from my mind. Bringing even the gravity of ungracious time to naught." Asuka Katsura
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