Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Before the dam bursts Sept 14, 2012

  

They're quiet moments

when she can find peace

 when the roar of the world

 gets shut out and

the rattling hamster wheel

 slows to a stop

 where she can be who she is

 no one to blame her for anything

 her fault or not t

he quiet almost unnatural silence

that is surreal

the noise is always the reality

 the silence like

the foreshadowing of what
 will be eventually

it is a silence

too fleeting to give much comfort

 slipping away

intruded upon constantly

so she must fight to keep it

for as long as she can

she is on the far side of a shutdown dam

 she knows cannot contain the flood for long

 and so she lives it

breathing it

 cherishing it

 knowing that at any moment

the damn will burst

and she will be cast away

 in flood waters

 the roar of which

she can hear already

despite her best efforts

not to

 

 

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