Showing posts with label life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label life. Show all posts

Thursday, 24 June 2021

Flat Line

She was this close to rock bottom when she realised how much she misses writing. It took her several dilly-dally years, two close death calls, different phases of depression, losing most of her friends and a huge part of her humanity to realise how bad she misses it, how bad she needed to write. 

It's funny how important a pen and paper means to her, her lifeline. This flat feeble rope holds so much and carries a lot... It's time to unclog.

She was stuck for so long and tried everything to become unstuck but only succeeded in digging herself further down so she decided to just settle, get comfy and be at peace with being stuck. Sadly, the earth doesn't consume flesh half full. Little by little, pieces of her fell off and turned into dirt dragging her in some more. 


She got so stuffed with dirt that she was literally full of shit. Shitty happy times, flimsy fun moments, fake hearty laughs and poker-faced bravado. She became really good at being stuck till it was too late... well almost.


Hence this, her last lifeline. A pen and paper. A dead me writing a dying her, asking, begging, hoping and praying that she wakes up and lives a lot more. Please don't die, stay alive, live a day more to wake me up again. 





                                                                                  by: Atila

Monday, 11 January 2016

The Familiar . by Somto aka (Deli'lah)


I'm having a blistering headache...
It's exactly 2:48pm on a wet Thursday afternoon...
Why?! Why?! Why?! I scream but only in my head
(After all I'm inside a bank)
Why the fuck do I do this to myself?
So much so, that I've done it for so long and now another is doing it to me,
(And trust me this has been going on for a while)
That part of me that craves thus black hole,
That bottomless, dark depth..
The fact that nothing I put affects it's width...
Only pain makes it grow...
I'm having a blistering headache
Diamond bank! I will not close shop with you!
I must have been... No..
I am comfortable with it, that only those that offer it become my source of "happiness"
God dammit! I need a smoke!
Why will the other send me what is meant for another?
Why will the other mock my self will and then act all unknowing!
You knew what this will do to me!
And now because of this new layer of blackness I will not leave...
I don't want to leave... I like it here...
I'm having a blistering headache...,
The manager apologizes and thanks me for my patience,
He's gracious...
It's exactly 3pm on a wet Thursday afternoon
The pain has become a welcome relief...
Hello friend...

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