The crickets invaded the night and here I was alone, petrified for the first time, wondering how soon will the dark take over and snatch my soul out of this useless body. The world is ending. Winter is here.
The world has been awfully quiet the past three days. It was not always that way. It used to be sunny and upbeat, humid and sweet.
The cold wind invited me over for a cup of hot chocolate. I politely declined. Time does not allow me to spend a minute away from the place labelled home. I am exhausted. The soil on my feet knows that. It carries my weight.
Black overcomes white at the strike of seven and I, mortal and powerless, leaves everything up to fate to decide. What is, if I may ask, the appropriate course of action when it is clear that the end is near? The clock won’t freely give away its hands for us to turn back the time. It is pointless to argue. You might as well move on and bid things adieu.
I live not for moments like this. Misery is not my best company.; despair is not a friend; hopelessness is a mortal sin. Carry not the burden of guilt. Set it aside for days when the earthworms are back and the ground is fertile to swallow you whole and alive. You are not made for today. Your birth is due in the season that follows next. You are loved more than you expected. But not in this time when the good old tree has been dusted.
I speak in phrases and incomplete sentences. Don’t hate me and condemn my existence. I am but here to deliver the message that truth does not always redeem; it sometimes corrupts and digs holes of blacks and browns with no one else left to distinguish what is good from greed.
Do not take the crickets for granted. They are made for the purpose of helping you breathe. The wind knows things will soon change. It shall cover the world in amber; it shall bring forth memories to forget and to remember.
I will find comfort in this corner…
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T30WC or The 30-minute Writing Challenge is a writing exercise born out of this blogger’s need to maintain a habit of writing. Subjects of each writing challenge is just about anything but should ONLY be written within 30 minutes.
