Window Shopping (Tower: Day 212)
for Angstpril, Day 15: Lost in My Mind
cw: imprisonment, manhandling, dehumanization
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Out on the horizon, the skyline sits like jagged teeth
A city waiting to devour you, spit your bones into the street
And the wolves in the towers are watching in wait—
Hm. Bait, fate, gate, grate, hate…
Lex's poems had gotten shorter lately. Sharper. He'd been finding it more and more difficult to compose verses about the things he missed, and couldn't tell if it was because it hurt too much, or because he was forgetting them.
The latter didn't seem possible. How could he forget something like the sun? The maple trees in the city park? The little coffee shop that was run by a woman he knew recognized him, but never said anything to the cops?
But every poem he tried came out flat.
'the sun above is shining gold'
Yeah, no shit. But it wasn't shining on him anymore, and that detail overshadowed anything lovely he could come up with.
The sun was bright, leaves danced when they fell, fall trees burned brighter than his fire, and the coffee lady's name was Sophie. Didn't matter. He'd never see any of them again.