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Published: 2008-01-03 07:20:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 181; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 0
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This is important, I don't know why.Just that, my dad, he leaves the window open in my room sometimes, and I don't notice until I wake up shivering in the middle of the night and I need to shift my way to it, half-asleep and naked from the waist up, to close it.
And sometimes when I'm really tired (because it takes a while, you know, to...to get back asleep)
but only when I'm really, quite exhausted,
I close my eyes and I'm instantaneously transported to a place of...
nothing.
It's difficult to describe.
Just that
just that this is important, wherever this is.
Wherever I go.
And another thing is
the skin, the lovely skin, I don't know why but I can't stop touching myself. Not like, in a dirty way, but all over, and all I can think, over and over again, is wow.
Wow, I'm really, really here, aren't I?
And then my hand hits cloth, and it all dies.
And the--the itching,
the pain, and everything about being human, a lot of people can't stand it but it's one of the most natural sensations in the world, to me, almost a second nature, this irritation and hurting.
I get lazy and tired and dreamy sometimes and I just imagine letting myself free of all of this, all of these things that have kept me straight. The path to...success? Success through completion of x amount of assignments, tasks, requirements?
This, this part is really important.
Because sometimes
I sit on my bed with calculations and pencils and pages spread all around me,
and I can feel my soul shaking
wailing
inside of me.
Comments: 10
ScribbledNotes [2008-01-04 05:53:18 +0000 UTC]
Double comment, so sue me.
Like a baka, I thought, Hmm, just google and see what you get, and this came up: International Baccalaureate
Would that be it? And if so, ah. Firstly, never knew/heard of such a thing. And secondly, the ending makes more sense, then.
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ScribbledNotes [2008-01-04 05:50:17 +0000 UTC]
Okays, so, firstly, WHAT THE HECK IS IB?!??!
I read this piece literally about four times today on my cell phone before I got home to send a proper ADORATION comment about this superb piece. Wow wow wow. This is great. Beyond great. The voice you have here is perfect. There is no flaw here. The verse-y prose-ness is a fun read and makes the voice that much more powerful. I composed several versions of a poem in my head as of yet still unwritten, but will be so greatly inspired by this.
Great, great work, my dear. Bravo and then some.
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amaranthineries In reply to ScribbledNotes [2008-01-14 07:18:02 +0000 UTC]
WOW.
Thank you!! O.O
I think that's about the nicest thing anyone's ever said to me. And yeah, you were right about IB, international baccalaureate. It's about the most ridiculous soul-sucking experience EVER, but I only have about 5 months before completion, so there's really no use giving up now (I've been at it for a little over two years now).
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ScribbledNotes In reply to amaranthineries [2008-01-14 07:25:43 +0000 UTC]
Oh yes. True true. If you'd been at it for that long, keep at it. You're almost there. And yes, that serious. Love this piece. My all time favorite.
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amaranthineries In reply to GhstsInSnow [2008-01-14 07:18:19 +0000 UTC]
*forks IB whilst down*
*then licks you*
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